There was a flood of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire books after the 1998 season, with some appearing only two or three weeks after the end of the season, and others appearing throughout 1999. Most of these books are minor, often little more than brief collections of photographs, but some have enough substance to be of longterm interest. Laura Driscoll's Sammy Sosa: He's the Man (1999) emphasizes Sosa's onfield achievements and, like Gutman's book, offers some color photographs. Matt Christopher's At the Plate with ... Sammy Sosa (1999) is part of a series of At the Plate with ... books about baseball players. As with other books in this series, it is somewhat slight and best suited to younger readers.

This is also true of P. J. Duncan's Sosa!: Baseball's Home Run Hero (1999; please see separate entry), which is also available in Spanish (El Heroe del Jonron). Duncan places Sosa's 1998 season in...