* Review: 7

June 16, 2009

From Bookchase, this review of Peter Golenbock’s roundly-panned fictional account of Mickey Mantle.

As a bonus, here’s a piece on a book that features a section on Babe Ruth, who

makes several appearances in The Given Day but it is in the book’s prologue that Lehane renders him most memorable. That section of the book, some twenty-seven pages long, in which Ruth and some other professional baseball players unexpectedly find themselves challenging a group of black amateur ballplayers to a game in the middle of nowhere, should be published as a short story on its own. It exposes the racism of the day and introduces both the Babe and Luther, all of it centered around one of the best descriptions of a baseball game I have ever read.

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