Notebook: Sep. 14, 1998

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WINNERS & LOSERS

[WINNERS]

JOE LIEBERMAN Senate pal hammers Prez, but this Tough Love may get Clinton out of free fall and cauterize his wound

RALPH ACAMPORA Prudential's bear looks good now, as pressure mounts on Goldman's Abby ("Bull") Cohen

CYNTHIA COOPER It's a repeat MVP, playoff MVP and championship ring for the WNBA's first great star

[& LOSERS]

AL GORE More teens know Leonardo than him, poll says. Will this still be true when he's President?

PEANUTS Planes to have nut-free zones to protect the allergic. Like the rest of airline food was so benign

PAUL WIGGINS Steeler tackle gets suspended for using the same muscle pills taken by Mark McGwire

Sosa & McGwire BY THE NUMBERS

Scribes are already scrambling to immortalize in poetry and prose the sensational seasons of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, which is why we decided to take a page from the bean-counter's handbook and offer naught but the facts. Here they are, as compiled by our friends at the Elias Sports Bureau.

60 Number of home runs Mark McGwire has hit

58 Number of home runs Sammy Sosa has hit

442 Number of at-bats McGwire has had

558 Number Sosa has had

1/9.6 Sosa's ratio of homers to at-bats

1/7.4 McGwire's ratio of homers to at-bats

1 Where McGwire's ratio ranks among all players in baseball history

61 The number of times Sosa has been walked

146 The number of times McGwire has been walked

170 Record for walks in a single season, held by Babe Ruth

27 Number of McGwire's walks that were intentional

11 Number of entire teams that have received fewer intentional walks than McGwire

0 Number of intentional walks received by Roger Maris in his record-setting season

55 Number of pitchers that gave up McGwire's homers

5 Number of pitchers whom McGwire has lit up twice (Tyler Green, Livan Hernandez, Rick Reed, Jeff Suppan, John Thomson)

9 Number of times McGwire has been retired this year by Kevin Brown of the San Diego Padres, the pitcher who has retired him most often without surrendering a homer

6 Number of times Sosa has been retired this year by Shane Reynolds of the Houston Astros, Pedro Astacio of the Colorado Rockies and Francisco Cordova of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the pitchers who have retired him most often without surrendering a homer

9 Number of games in which Sosa has homered more than once

8 Number of times McGwire has homered more than once

0 Number of National League teams Sosa has failed to hit a home run against

7 Number of pitchers with ERAs below 3.00 that McGwire has homered against

20 Number of times McGwire and Sosa have homered the same day

$9,500,000 Amount McGwire makes, excluding bonuses

$10,625,000 Amount Sosa makes

$135 Estimated value of a mint 1985 Topps McGwire baseball card

$425 Value of a mint 1958 Topps Roger Maris card

$25 Value of a mint 1990 Leaf Sosa card

$6,000 Value of a 1915 Sporting News Babe Ruth card

All numbers through Saturday, Sept. 5

60-SECOND SYMPOSIUM