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The other “Chairman of the Board” turns 82 today, a day after the birthday of his Yankee friend and teammate, Mickey Mantle. In his last two seasons with the Yankees, Ford — inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974 — had a record of 4-9. Subtract that from his career totals and he would [...]
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Several high-profile ballplayers share Oct. 20 as a birthday. Tops on the list: Mickey Mantle. There are dozens of books about The Mick. Many of the more recent ones examines his flaws as a person well as his strengths as an athlete, including Jane Leavy’s just-published The Last Boy. Since this book — and by [...]
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Many thanks to Greg Spira for these outlets that ran reviews of Jane Leavy’s new biography, The Last Boy: From Keith Olberman in the Sunday NY Times Book Review section. Upshot: “Leavy comes as close as perhaps anyone ever has to answering “What makes Mantle Mantle?” She transcends the familiarity of the subject, cuts through [...]
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The NY Daily News begins a series of excerpts from Jane Leavy’s new book: “Mickey Mantle finally opens up about childhood sexual abuse” Richard Sandomir of The New York Times offers this piece. Expect a full-blown review in Sunday’s Book Review Section. James Bailey wrote this review for Baseball America. Upshot: “Mission accomplished, and powerfully [...]
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The news that a kinescope recording of the final game of the 1960 World Series was found in the wine cellar of the late Bing Crosby is being hailed as such an important discovery, one would think we were talking about the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Sure, it a cool find, kinda like an [...]
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Can’t believe the season is almost over. The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1. Title Rank General Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams, by John Updike 1 The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 2 Moneyball: [...]
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They probably have humongous bookshelves in their palatial estates. Wouldn’t you know, the Steinbrenners can never do anything simple. The latest deal: is the monument honoring the late King George too big? Many fans have a problem with tributes to players like Mantle and DiMaggio This big while the new one saluting GS monument is [...]
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by Peter Golenbock. The Lyons Press, 2007. When 7 came out a few years ago, many sportswriters — especially in the New York area — considered it a shande (shame). How could Golenbock — who had heretofore published only non-fiction — have besmirched the character of the late lamented Mickey Mantle with this trashy, borderline [...]
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Here’s to the Class of 2010. And I don’t mean the newest Hall of Famers. How cool is it that this year marks the release of biographies on some of the true icons of the game? The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End [...]
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The poster girl for ill-treated baseball wives passed away on Monday at the age of 77.
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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, [...]
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Came across this item from the People magazine on Mickey Mantle archives and thought I’d pass it along. Although I fancy myself as a very low-end collector, I’m surprised I don;t have this among my souvenirs/ I have several newspapers from when Joe DiMaggio died, as well as Cal Ripken’s end-of-streak game, but not much [...]
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by Fred Glueckstein (iUniverse) This slim volume focusing primarily on Mantle’s first year with the NY Yankees is basic enough. Glueckstein has obviously done his research quite well. Too well, it might appear, as he relishes in relaying the most minute details, such as the full name and birth dates and places of most of [...]
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“The Mick” died on Aug. 13, 1995. I happened to be home sick that day, and remember the State-like funeral. Thousands of words have been written on how he came to realize the impact he had on America, how he felt he failed to live up to expectations — both his own and those of [...]
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
Congratulations to Scott P. of Rochester, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
Next up: Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball
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What I just read:
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Amazingly sensitive and surprisingly literate effort by Dickey and Coffey. A
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets
A serviceable, nostalgic look at the Amazin's in their heyday. B
Calico Joe
Grisham's first baseball novel is emotional, if a bit predictable. B
What I'm reading now
Extra Innings
Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
What's next:
Butterfly Winter
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A matter of interpretation: Publishers’ publicity departments praising their authors
October 8, 2010 · 2 comments
So yesterday I wrote about Jane Leavy’s new book on Mickey Mantle, published by Harper Collins, which got the “excerpt treatment” from Sports Illustrated. Since I have yet to get my copy, I started looking around to see if there were other excerpts available. I eventually found my way to Leavy’s page on the Harper [...]
Tagged as: Allan Barra, Jane Leavy, Mickey Mantle
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