The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover) by Jane Leavy

from dickmanikowski

Like Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle was an icon for Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. But while Marilyn died at the peak of her career, Mickey had to make a life for himself after baseball. This incisive biography delves into the man and the demons that tormented him. His celebrity came to be his ...

from zimbawilson

Jane Leavy has written a wonderful bio of one of the best baseball players in American history. Leavy's approach is different and very effective as she picks 20 moments from Mantles career and build her bio thru them. The chapters are still arranged chronologically yet each chapter goes much deep...

from chrisod

Mantle was a lousy husband, crappy father, and perpetually injured throughout his career. Who knows what kind of numbers he would have put up if he had been healthy. I'm too young to have grown up watching him, so he was always just one of those old timers to me, and one who played for the wrong ...

from Dillinger

I grew up during the time of Mickey Mantle's playing days with the New York Yankees. I would listen to the ballgames on the radio and television with my grandfather, who happened to be a rabid Red Sox fan. The season that Maris and Mantle were hot on the trail of Babe Ruth's home run record was s...

from landlocked54

Over the years there have been numerous bios written about The Mick. This is the best. Revisiting her April 1983 interview with The Mick throughout the bio makes this venture much more interesting. Leavy departed from the traditional biography by telling Mantle's life story by looking at 21 days ...