Editing Sammy Sosa (section)

===Texas Rangers (2007)===
[[File:Major League Baseball's Sammy Sosa watches as a member of the Navy Parachute Team Leap Frogs lands in Boston's Fenway Park prior to a Red Sox Game.jpg|thumb|Sosa played his final MLB season with the Rangers in 2007 before retiring two years later.]]
The Texas Rangers, Sosa's original team, signed him to a minor league deal worth $500,000 on January 30, 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-01-30 |title=Sosa signs with Rangers; 'I'm ready to go' |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2748276 |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=ESPN.com|agency=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref> This was the same contract that Sosa turned down the previous year from the Nationals. The contract included an invitation to [[spring training]], where Sosa competed for a spot in the lineup with [[Nelson Cruz]], [[Jason Botts]], and other rookies/prospects.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=T .R. |date=2007-01-17 |title=Sosa, Rangers agree in principle to deal |url=https://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070117&content_id=1780982&vkey=hotstove2006&fext=.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901185808/https://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070117&content_id=1780982&vkey=hotstove2006&fext=.jsp |archive-date=2010-09-01 |website=MLB.com}}</ref> Sosa was successful during spring training and was added to the team's 25-man roster. He started the 2007 season as the Rangers' designated hitter and occasional right fielder.
At the same time, the Chicago Cubs awarded Sosa's number 21 to new pitcher [[Jason Marquis]], who coincidentally served up Sosa's 600th career home run. This caused some concern, due to Sosa's accomplishments with the Cubs, including his status as the Cubs' all-time home run leader.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suntimes.com/sports/deluca/268111,CST-SPT-deluca22.article|title=Sosa's 21 a long-distance number|last=DeLuca|first=Chris|date=February 22, 2007|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=February 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930014727/http://www.suntimes.com/sports/deluca/268111%2CCST-SPT-deluca22.article|archive-date=September 30, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On April 26, 2007, Sosa made history by hitting a home run in his 45th major league ballpark. He has also homered in [[Champion Stadium|The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports]], near [[Orlando, Florida]], a usually minor-league and [[Spring training]] park that hosted a regular season series between the Rangers and the [[Tampa Bay Devil Rays]] in May 2007, although he did not hit a homer at the two regular season games the Cubs played at the Tokyo Dome in 2000 vs. the Mets. On June 20, 2007, Sosa hit a home run off of [[Jason Marquis]] during an inter-league game against the Chicago Cubs. Sosa became only the fifth man in history, following [[Babe Ruth]], [[Willie Mays]], [[Hank Aaron]], and [[Barry Bonds]], to hit 600 regular season home runs. The home run was the first one that Sosa had recorded against the Cubs, and as a result he has hit a home run against every active MLB team.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2911022 | title=Sosa becomes fifth player to blast 600 home runs | agency=Associated Press | publisher=ESPN | date=June 20, 2007 | access-date=June 19, 2017}}</ref> Sosa is the Cubs' all-time home run leader, having hit 545 with that team.