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slugger33
04-24-2007, 03:39 PM
On ESPN.com and MLB.com, it lists Sammy Sosa's middle name as Kevin. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=4344

On Baseball-reference.com, it says Peralta. This is just a weird fact I found.

KCGHOST
04-25-2007, 01:19 PM
Hard to believe a guy born in the Dominican Republic of Dominican parents would hang the moniker Kevin on their kid.

vptpt
04-26-2007, 07:03 AM
That's weird, maybe it was somebody's idea of a joke. I've always heard of it as Peralta. But he had another nickname growing up: Mikey. The way I heard it, his grandmother heard the name on a soap opera shortly after Sammy was born. She liked the name of it and started calling him that. Some of his friend's call him that too.

I don't know if that's common knowledge. Forgive me if I'm just repeating what everyone knows already.

mojorisin71
04-26-2007, 12:03 PM
Peralta must be his mother's maiden name. I've never seen "Peralta" being used as a first name anywhere in Latin America.

texasrangersrock
01-31-2008, 10:08 PM
he is dominican dont they sometimes have a bunch of middle names

deftones999us
02-01-2008, 10:58 AM
they should come up with a blog area for free agents cause he is no longer a texas ranger :)

TheJourneyman
02-01-2008, 11:14 AM
they should come up with a blog area for free agents cause he is no longer a texas ranger :)

nope now he is just another ex-roid'er. :shhh:

Honus Wagner Rules
02-01-2008, 04:18 PM
Hard to believe a guy born in the Dominican Republic of Dominican parents would hang the moniker Kevin on their kid.

How about "Valdimir"? That's definitely not a Spanish name either.

steveironcity
02-02-2008, 07:10 PM
I asked him what his middle names was, but amazngly, he forgot how to speak english.