The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood Paperback - 2011
by Jane Leavy
Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, Leavy delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with a damaged soul.
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year
Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original: number 7, Mickey Mantle. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author's weekend with the Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983 after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family. It is the story of a boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League's Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth's home run crown in the summer of 1961--a boy who would never grow up. The Last Boy is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones--not only a portrait of an icon but also an investigation of memory itself.
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- Title The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
- Author Jane Leavy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2011-10-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060883539 / 0060883537
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.35 x 1.22 in (20.45 x 13.59 x 3.10 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects New York Yankees (Baseball team), Baseball players - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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