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Title: Mark McGwire by Richard J. Brenner ISBN: 0-688-17085-4 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50

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Comment: This is a good children's sports book highlighting the Mark McGwire's record breaking 70 home runs in 1998. The brief book (about 30 pages) traces his power hitting from his youth to high school and to college at USC, then picks up his home run stats at Oakland and St. Louis. There are excellent color photos throughout. Somehow, the book doesn't quite capture the magnitude or excitement of his achievement (later broken by Barry Bonds), and a page devoted to his full stats would have been helpful. But the book does mention some of the more subtle reasons why that year was special, such as the competition with Sammy Sosa, and the respect McGwire showed to the family of Roger Maris. McGwire also established a foundation to help abused children, and is presented as a good role model for kids. Enjoyable reading, with great pictures, this would be appreciated by a young baseball fan.