Former major league baseball player Sammy Sosa has purchased a 7,273-square-foot oceanfront home in South Florida for $7.6 million.
The slugger's new home is located on more than half an acre of land at 667 Ocean Blvd. in Golden Beach, in the northeast corner of Miami-Dade County. The property features ocean views throughout.
The Intracoastal Waterway is a short distance to the west.
The two-story estate was built in 1998 and was last sold for $6.4 million in 2002. It also includes a pool, seven bedrooms and eight and a half bathrooms.
Sosa hit 66 home runs with the Chicago Cubs in 1998 as he and Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals – who had 70 round-trippers – chased and eclipsed Roger Maris' single-season home run record that year.
But Sosa’s name also appeared on a list The New York Times published in 2009 of players who tested positive in 2003 for an unidentified performance-enhancing drug. He received 12.5 percent of the vote in the most recent Hall of Fame balloting, far short of the 75 percent he needs to be enshrined.
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Sosa retired after the 2007 season with 609 career home runs, which is eighth all-time.
