By Meena Kar
Nov. 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The pictures of Sammy Sosa snapped on the Latin Grammy night has received huge circulation in the internet as it shows the former baseball player having white skin. Sosa, who was a popular baseball player and had black skin throughout his gaming career. His bleached skin photographs has surprised people and some have compared him to Michael Jackson, who had changed his skin color several times.

Like many other Sosa’s friends, Rebecca Polihronis, who was an employee of Cubs was surprised to see his new look. However, she has justified the reason for Sosa’s white skin and said, “he is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin.” She also stated that Sosa himself was astonished to see the new color of his skin. Polihronis added that Sosa does not want to follow Michael Jackson, who had changed the color of his skin, he was just undergoing dermatological treatment to keep his skin healthy after playing several years in sunlight.

Though Polihronis has stated the cause of Sosa’s bleached skin, people have not stopped making speculations. Some considered that the baseball player takes steroids, which caused vitiligo and resulted to this new skin color. The news of Sammy Sosa’s changed complexion has spread like a wildfire and received more importance than many other important happenings of the Latin Grammy Night. The pictures of Sammy Sosa accompanied with Sonia Sosa [his wife] has gained mixed comments from people, who were perplexed to see his bleached skin. Though some considered that he was not looking bad in his white complexion, some considered that Sammy Sosa looked better in his black complexion.

UPDATE: fixed errors