[PDF] Mickey Mantle The Commerce Comet eBook

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101933526

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The ONLY nonfiction picture book about New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. From award-winning author Jonah Winter and #1 New York Times bestselling artist C. F. Payne comes this extraordinary picture-book biography that traces Mickey Mantle’s unparalleled baseball career. He could run from home plate to first base in 2.9 seconds. He could hit a ball 540 feet—the longest home run in major league history. He was the greatest switch hitter ever to play the game. And he did it all despite broken bones, pulled muscles, strains, and sprains, from his shoulders to his feet. How did a poor country boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, become one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players of all time? This is the story.

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101933542

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The ONLY nonfiction picture book about New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. From award-winning author Jonah Winter and #1 New York Times bestselling artist C. F. Payne comes this extraordinary picture-book biography that traces Mickey Mantle’s unparalleled baseball career. He could run from home plate to first base in 2.9 seconds. He could hit a ball 540 feet—the longest home run in major league history. He was the greatest switch hitter ever to play the game. And he did it all despite broken bones, pulled muscles, strains, and sprains, from his shoulders to his feet. How did a poor country boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, become one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players of all time? This is the story.

Author : Jane Leavy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061987786

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Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer's reputation in his latter years. In The Last Boy, Leavy plumbs the depths of the complex athlete, using copious first-hand research as well as her own memories, to show why The Mick remains the most beloved and misunderstood Yankee slugger of all time.

Author : Mickey Mantle
Publisher : Sagamore Pub Llc
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582614991

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Mickey Mantle tells stories about his career; includes film footage of game highlights.

Author : Mickey Mantle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803282599

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Tells the stories of players who did their best despite personal adversity, including Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Roger Maris, Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, and Jimmy Piersall

Author : Tony Castro
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597979945

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More than any other athlete, Mickey Mantle was the American hero whose life personified the great expectations and unfulfilled dreams of the twentieth century. Hailed by Casey Stengel as the next Ruth and successor to DiMaggio, Mantle would become the first true sports icon of the television age. In Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, former Sports Illustrated writer Tony Castro recounts a story of fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and a youth's rite of passage. He interviewed over 250 of Mantle's friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking partners, producing an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 030771649X

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Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.

Author : Ronald A. Reis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1438100531

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Growing up in small-town, Depression-era Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle heard the same plea day in and day out from his parents: Get out of the house and play some baseball Sooner than anyone expected, Mantle was a New York Yankee in 1951. Five years later, the switch-hitting phenomenon was on his way to stardom, completing the season with a Triple Crown for the highest batting average and most home runs and RBIs. Hailed as the successor to the great Joe DiMaggio, Mantle felt the pressure of success, and faced difficulties stemming from physical infirmity and, later, alcohol abuse. In Mickey Mantle, discover how this baseball great came to grips with his addiction, becoming a role model for the clean and sober life, and is now remembered as an American baseball hero.

Author : Roselyn Sanchez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399583637

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From actors (and real-life married couple) Sanchez ("Devious Maids") and Winter ("The Mentalist") comes an exciting adventure that celebrates the joy of dancing. Full color.