Mickey Mantle

by Castro, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781574883848
• ISBN10: 1574883844
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Brassey's Inc

Summary

In the life of the great cultural icon baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see America's romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort in power during a time when might did make right. But if his life symbolized the great expectations of America in the 1950s, it also epitomized the dashed dreams of a troubled generation in the 1960s and its unrealistic hopes for achievement. Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Sonis both an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating and enduring sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time. During six years of research, former Sports Illustratedwriter Tony Castro interviewed more than 250 friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking buddies of one of America's most famous sports heroes.

Author Biography

Tony Castro is a former staff writer at Sports Illustrated and Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and his work has appeared in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. With his wife and two sons, he lives in Beverly Hills, California

Table of Contents

Prologue	ix
Fathers And Sons	3	(72)
Heroes And Rebels	75	(80)
The Kingdom And The Power	155	(78)
The Autumn Of The Legend	233	(48)
Epilogue	281	(6)
Author's Note	287	(7)
Acknowledgments	294	(4)
Mickey Mantle's Hall of Fame Speech	298	(4)
Bob Costas's Eulogy	302	(4)
Mickey Mantle's Batting Statistics	306	(29)
Bibliography	335	(2)
Index	337	(7)
About the Author	344