Editing Sammy Sosa (section)

==Early life==
Sosa was born in the [[Dominican Republic]]. Though born in a [[Batey (sugar workers' town)|Batey community]] in [[Consuelo, Dominican Republic|Consuelo]],<ref>{{cite news|title=ACTA IMPACTA El dirigente de Cleveland trabaja con niños en Ingenio Consuelo|url=http://hoy.com.do/acta-impactael-dirigente-de-cleveland-trabajacon-ninos-en-ingenio-consuelo/}}</ref> his officially registered birthplace is [[San Pedro de Macorís]], which was "the largest town nearby".<ref>''Sosa: An Autobiography'', Sammy Sosa and Marcos Bretón, Time Warner, 2000, p. 23</ref> Sosa is known to family and friends as "Mikey". His maternal grandmother suggested his birth name of Samuel, and also came up with his nickname: "[She] heard the name on a [[soap opera]] she liked and decided from that moment on he would be Mikey."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbER1aNH-2oC&pg=PT16 |title=Sosa: An Autobiography |editor1= Sosa, Sammy|editor2=Bretón, Marcos |page=16 |date=2008 |publisher=Time Warner |isbn=978-0446555364}}</ref>