Mantle: The Best There Ever Was

Mantle: The Best There Ever Was

Tony Castro
$24.95
Publication Date: May 22nd, 2019
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781538122211
Pages:
280

Description

Booklist, Starred Review - This book brings Mickey Mantle story to life with a fully-rounded portrait of a complex, misunderstood hero. Including never-before-published details from Mantle's widow, it offers insight into his career using modern analytics, making the argument that that he should be considered the greatest ballplayer of all time.

About the Author

Tony Castro, an American historian and Nieman Fellow at Harvard, is the author of seven books, including the literary biography Looking for Hemingway and the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power, which Publishers Weekly hailed as "brilliant . . . a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time." Mantle: The Best There Ever Was completes Castro's Mickey Mantle trilogy, which includes Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, the best biography ever written about the Hall of Fame icon according to the New York Times, and DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers. He is currently working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Castro lives in Los Angeles with his wife Renee LaSalle and their black Labrador retriever Jeter.