Famed baseball star Sammy Sosa is standing in a conference room in a downtown hotel here, looking extremely dubious about placing his hand in a pan of hot wax.
Sculptor Raelee Frazier (in photos at right with Sosa) guides his right hand into the wax and asks, "Do you ever look at your hands and think they're special?"
Sosa says, "Yeah. They are special. That's why I hit all those home runs."
Ms. Frazier laughs and says, "No more dumb questions."
Sosa, whose 66 homers in 1998 are the second-most ever hit in one season (Mark McGwire is first with 70, also in '98), chuckles, "No, no, that's OK." What still seems to be not OK and possibly dumb in Sosa's mind is standing here with his hand in the 125-degree wax. It's warm but far from scalding.
Sosa clearly doesn't understand precisely what he has let himself in for.
What it is is art.
Frazier, who grew up in a rural Kansas oil camp where her father worked, and eventually ended up majoring in fine arts, says she is "a biographer in bronze."
And that is today's project. She will produce a bronze of …
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