Sammy Sosa, who emerged as one of the top sluggers in baseball while playing for the Chicago Cubs in the late-1990s during the great homerun race between himself, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire and San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds, has been relatively absent from the main stream media, but he re-surfaced Tuesday with a lighter complexion than ever as he continues to experiment with skin-conditioning.

Sosa has been experimenting with skin-conditioning since 2009 and pictures of his new pigment surfaced a few years ago, but the latest photo taken of the unrecognizable slugger reveals his skin to be much lighter than it was in his playing days with Chicago.

Sosa has been somewhat the forgotten one of the trio of controversial sluggers who are the figure-heads of the Steroid Era in baseball during the late-90s.

McGwire, who set a single-season record by blasting 70 homers in the 1998 season and has admitted to taking steroids in the past, has been the hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals for the past few years, and Bonds, who shattered McGwire's record with 73 homers in 2001, is arguably the most infamous of the three as he has been vilified from the public eye for his connection to the BALCO controversy involving steroids and perjury charges while Sosa has remained mainly unspoken of.

Since his disappearance from the public eye, MESN reports that Sosa has mostly appeared in the public eye during Latin festivals, but has not been involved with any MLB public events since his retirement in 2007 due to the controversy surrounding him.

Sosa, a native of the Dominican Republic, played in 2,354 games, and slugged 609 long balls while raking in 1,667 RBIs and had a career average of .273, but if most fans walked up to him on the street these days, the man who was a crucial part of the baseball boom of the late-90's wouldn't even be recognizable.