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Mickey Mantle
America's Prodigal Son

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Mickey Mantle
America's Prodigal Son

by Tony Castro (Author)

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ISBN: 9781597971713

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Mickey Mantle's life symbolized the great expectations of America in the 1950s. It also epitomized the dashed dreams of a troubled generation in the 1960s and its unrealistic hopes for achievement. This title is a biography of this sports hero and a takes a look at American society in his time.

Mantle called it "the greatest photograph I've ever seen of myself." - The Mickey Mantle Museum, Cooperstown, N. Y., and Mr. Tom Catal and Mr. Andrew Vilacky.

ISBN	1597971715
ISBN13	9781597971713
Publisher	Potomac Books Inc
Format	Paperback
Publication date	00/02/2008
Pages	358
Weight (grammes)	260.00
Published in	United States
Height (mm)	204
Width (mm)	126

Prologue
PART 1 FATHERS AND SONS
PART 2 HEROES AND REBELS
PART 3 THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER
PART 4 THE AUTUMN OF THE LEGEND
Epilogue
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Mickey Mantle's Hall of Fame Speech
Bob Costas's Eulogy
Mickey Mantle's Batting Statistics
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.