The Mick

(Book summary from inside jacket cover)

If every boy in America dreams of playing major league baseball, then Mickey Mantle had fulfilled that dream before his twentieth birthday.  In the years that followed, Mantle became a symbol for millions - the all-American boy, was wholesome as the Oklahoma farmland of his birth. He was a miner's son who could hit home runs from both sides of the plate, a premier fielder with a powerful arm.  And in the glory days of the Bronx Bombers, he was their #1 weapon, the player who made the Yankees unbeatable year after pennant-winning year.

Here, then, is Mickey Mantle's true story: honest answers to the questions that his fans have been asking for more than twenty years.  Sure, it's full of those great names from the Yankee past: Maris, DiMaggio, Stengel, Ford, Berra, Martin, Howard.  The book abounds with those memories of when Mickey was the toast of the town.  More than that, though, it movingly recounts the private events of his remarkable public life; from his humble beginnings, to his personal triumphs in and out of baseball, to the tragedy that haunts four generations of his family.

Brimming with the nostalgia and the detail that baseball fans love, The Mick is a wry, affectionate, and stunningly candid self-portrait of a true American legend.