[PDF] Mickey Mantles Last Home Run eBook

Author : Steven A. Falco
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 153205209X

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TJ and Jonathan are teen-age friends and teammates on the JV baseball team. Like many young people growing up in America in the late sixties, they have heroes. For TJ, who is white, it is Mickey Mantle, the aging star of the New York Yankees. For Jonathan, who is black, it is Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, 1968 is a bad year for heroes and—America. Their friendship is strained to the breaking point when Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. Jonathan, who is devastated by the murder, blames all white people, TJ included. TJ then has to struggle through the challenges of the JV baseball season in his racially-torn town, without the support of his friend. Is there anything that can repair their broken bond? Would it take still another American tragedy?

Author : Jane Leavy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,54 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 : Mark Gallagher
Publisher : Arbor House Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780877958536

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A unique baseball reference that re-creates the excitement of Mickey Mantle's extraordinary home runs, tracking his career from rookie sensation through the glory years of the Yankees with Yogi Berra and Roger Maris. 16 pages of photographs.

Author : David S. Nuttall
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781561719747

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This book takes you back to majestic Yankee Stadium and other classic ball parks of the fifties and sixties. Coming to the plate, amid rising anticipation in the hearts of thousands of fans, is the handsome "kid from Oklahoma".

Author : Bill Jenkinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0762762470

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The tape measure home run is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Fully illustrated with photos of the players and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium's longest homers.

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 32,38 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 : Tony Castro
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 35,5 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 : 50,64 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 : John Marlin
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467704024

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Mickey Mantle was one of baseball’s best players—and perhaps the greatest athlete of his time. Follow Mickey from his childhood days playing baseball in Commerce, Oklahoma, to his celebrated eighteen-year career with the New York Yankees, to his induction into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a true sports hero!