Sosa Fan Celebrates Bat and Bawl Night
Cameron Alsup hollered before his encounter with Sammy Sosa and sobbed afterward.
Cameron and his father had cheap seats at Qualcomm Stadium on Tuesday, then worked their way down to some empty seats just above the Chicago Cubs’ dugout.
“We’re standing there and I’m saying, ‘Sammy, Sammy, you’re the best,’ ” Cameron said. Sosa smiled at him, pumped his arm in the air and continued warming up.
“I said Sammy, ‘You’re my idol, man,’ ” Cameron said Wednesday. “He went in the dugout and I thought he was going to get more pine tar or something, then he comes out with a bat and gives it to a guy and points at me!”
The stadium worker passed the bat to Cameron. The boy collapsed onto his knees crying.
“I was so excited, I felt just like a kid myself,” said his father, Gary Alsup. “It was just such a classy thing to do.”
Sosa struck out, but on Wednesday he hit a grand slam to tie Mark McGwire for the home run record at 63.
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