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A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- Title
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle / Randy Roberts & Johnny Smith.
- Author
- Roberts, Randy, 1951-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- Smith, Johnny (John Matthew)
- Description
- xx, 276 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season: Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland. In A Season in the Sun, acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith recount the defining moment of Mantle's legendary career: 1956, when he overcame a host of injuries and critics to become the most celebrated athlete of his time. Taking us from the action on the diamond to Mantle's off-the-field exploits, Roberts and Smith depict Mantle not as an ideal role model or a bitter alcoholic, but a complex man whose faults were smoothed over by sportswriters eager to keep the truth about sports heroes at bay. An incisive portrait of an American icon, A Season in the Sun is an essential work for baseball fans and anyone interested in the 1950s"--
- Alternative Title
- Rise of Mickey Mantle
- Subject
- Mantle, Mickey, 1931-1995
- New York Yankees (Baseball team) > History
- New York Yankees (Baseball team)
- Baseball players > United States > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports
- HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
- HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History
- Baseball players
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The blue-eyed boy -- A father's dream -- The Commerce Comet -- The natural -- The great American game -- "Match that!" -- The boy has come of age -- The gods -- "I love Mickey" -- The best in the game -- Aristocrats and bums -- Epilogue: The last snapshot.
- ISBN
- 9780465094424
- 0465094422
- 9780465094431 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017038834
- 40028084267
- OCLC
- ocn993419713
- 993419713
- SCSB-8996553
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library