Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son

by Tony Castro

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Places Mickey Mantle and the Mantle mythology within the context of America in the 1950s and 1960s

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Tony Castro, an American historian and Nieman Fellow at Harvard, is the author of eight books, including a critically acclaimed civil rights history and five baseball biographies. As a journalist, Castro has reported on politics, race relations, wealth and power, pop culture, Latin America, and sports for numerous news organizations, among them show more the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Texas Observer, and Sports Illustrated. Castro lives in Los Angeles. show less

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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796.357Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsAthletic and outdoor sports and gamesBall sportsBall and stick sportsBaseball
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GV865 .M33 .C38Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsBall games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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