Mickey Mantle's Greatest Hits

(Book summary from back cover)

This book chronicles the longest championship stretch of baseball excellence ever generated by any franchise in Major League baseball history, the New York Yankees of 1951-1964.

The heroic career of Mickey Mantle and its march through the record books was the main reason for the Yankees' journey to baseball supremacy.

The day-to-day log of Mantle's home runs and championship slugging re-creates the excitement of the unparalleled Yankee success in the Fifties and Sixties.

This book tracks one of the most unique Hall-of-Fame careers in the history of the game, the switch-hitting slugging genius of Mickey Charles Mantle.  It also reproduces the greatness and excitement of unparalleled feats when the "Bronx Bombers" ruled the game with Yankee ppower and pinstriped pitching, and Mantle ruled Yankee Power.

Readers relive Yankee glory and Mickey Mantle's home run heroics which, by the time of his retirement, was the second best long-ball performance in the history of the American League, and the best individual record of slugging ever in the World Series.

The Mantle excitement and mystique come to life in this portrait of power and pain.  Recapture the unrivaled accomplishments of "the Commerce Comet" with his booming home runs, blinding speed, irrepressible long-ball, immeasurable potential, and his immense personal courage.

The author permits readers to vicariously transport themselves back to the greatest moments of historic games as they revisit dramatic replications of baseball's Golden Days.  For each awesome roundtripper you'll learn:

1) Who was pitching, 2) What the count was, 3) The game's score, site & attendance, 4) How many men were on and how many out, 5) Which side of the plate Mantle batted from and 6) The impact of the 4-baggers.

The legends of this switch-hitting prodigy are documented in this one-of-a-kind tribute to "The Mick".