I was fifteen during the summer of 98, and was barely a baseball fan at the time, let alone a Cubs fan. My family is full of Cubs fans but as I grew up in the DC area and didn’t have cable for most of my childhood, my baseball fandom was pretty much confined to watching the playoffs, so I didn’t see much of the Cubs. Sosa changed all of that for me - the summer of 98 was when I became a fan of baseball on my own terms. Sosa just had fun playing baseball, and he shared his joy fo...