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Mantle - The Best There Ever Was (Hardcover)
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Mantle - The Best There Ever Was (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
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I really do believe I would be way up at the top of everything if I
hadn’t been injured. When I was healthy, I really believe I was
the best of anyone I ever saw play.—Mickey Mantle, reflecting on
his career Mickey Mantle is one of baseball’s all-time greats.
Playing for the New York Yankees for his entire professional
career, Mantle was named to the All-Star team for 11 consecutive
seasons, won three MVP awards, and was a seven-time World Series
champion. He quickly became an icon who achieved hero status even
while playing through injuries for most of his career. In Mantle:
The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro makes the impassioned argument
that Mickey Mantle truly was the greatest ballplayer of all time.
Acclaimed by the New York Times as the definitive biographer of
baseball’s fabled number 7, Castro shares many of his personal
conversations with Mantle, demystifying the legend and revealing
intimate, never-before-published details from Mantle’s personal
life. In addition, Castro offers illuminating new insights into
Mantle’s extraordinary career, including the head-turning
conclusion based on the evolution of analytics that the beloved
Yankee switch-hitting slugger may ultimately win acclaim as having
fulfilled the weighty expectation once placed on him: being even
greater than Babe Ruth. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with
ex-teammates, friends, and family—including Mantle’s widow and
longtime mistress—Castro masterfully blends Mantle’s public and
private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this complex,
misunderstood national hero.
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