They were asked torespond in the context of their most important product orproduct line, and the most recently ended planning period(see Table 1 for a brief description). Forty tape-recordedinterviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes yieldedmore than 1,200 pages of transcripts.
Tim Kurkjian: Yes. Sammy Sosa is a Hall of Famer. There is no definitive proof about his alleged steroid involvement, so in the absence of hard evidence, his numbers are what we go by, and they are of Cooperstown quality. He has the fifth-most home runs in baseball history.
This is Sosa's fourth year on the Hall of Fame ballot and his support has declined each year: he received 12.5 percent of the vote in his first year, 7.7 percent in his second year and 6.6 percent last year. Players need 75 percent for induction.