Sammy Sosa's Pictures Reveal Shocking Skin Tone Change

Treatment for Skin Result "Weird"

Sammy Sosa's pictures from the Latin Grammy Awards were odd. Sammy Sosa's pictures reveal skin that is much lighter than his normal skin color in fact Sammy Sosa's picture actually make look pretty close to white.

Mike Penner has posted an article titled "Sosa suffers from too mush exposure" in The Los Angeles Times Sports section that discusses the situation.

Of course the initial thought that came to many people's mind was that Sammy Sosa's pictures reflected the same concept as Michael Jackson; it was the beginning of a major renovation because of a rare condition called vitiligo.

I have written an article that was published on Associated Content about vitiligo that I have linked to.

According to Penner's article that is not What Sammy Sosa's pictures represented. He has been getting skin treatments because of the many days he played in the sun in Wrigley Field while with the Chicago Cubs. I can vouch for the fact he did since I have been a multi-decade Cub fan and even though they broke down and started playing night games, they still love the daytime hours.

My father was a crane operator in a steel mill in the 1950s and the 1960s. It got extremely hot in the operations buildings. The cranes would pass back and forth over a "track." When the summer weather would get hot as well the crane operators would all come down with skin eruptions called "prickly heat." That was the way Sammy Sosa's skin often looked to me when he was batting and the cameraman would do a close-up.

Rebecca Polihronis is a former Cubs employee and a good friend of Sammy Sosa and she said that he just had the treatment to offset the beating his skin took from Wrigley Field's sun.

Polihronis said that many women have treatments like the one Sosa had all of the time. However she did admit that the end result for now at least came out looking weird.

Sammy Sosa's pictures really don't look like him skin color notwithstanding. However he seems pretty content.

I've been a Cubs fan for over 50 years and I don't know what kind of treatment would help me.

References:

www.latimes.com

www.associatedcontent.com