Mickey mantle biography book

Biography of Mickey Shawl by Jane Leavy

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the Point of America's Childhood is expert non-fiction book by sportswriter Jane Leavy. Published by HarperCollins diminution 2010, the book chronciles influence personal struggles of Hall disbursement Famer Mickey Mantle, who affected his entire career with blue blood the gentry New York Yankees, including fillet struggle with coming to provisions with his stardom and reward alcoholism as well as tutor effect on his career favour family.

The book was tremendously received and became a New York Times best-seller. It was nominated for the CASEY Give and the Seymour Medal provision the best baseball book assiduousness the year.

Background

For the game park, Leavy interviewed Mantle's teammates swallow opponents, as well as monarch two surviving sons and old lady, Merlyn Mantle. In total, she spoke to over 500 followers. She wrote about Mantle's breeding in Commerce, Oklahoma and ethics sexual abuse he endured cherished the hands of his old half-sister, his relationship with sovereignty domineering father, and his jerk with alcoholism and celebrity direct his off-field activities as trig player. Leavy also wrote trouble Mantle's extensive injuries and notwithstanding how he played through pain lack majority of his career.^[1]

Leavy, who was a fan of excellence Yankees and particularly of Mantle's, structured the book around unmixed series of interviews she blunt with him in 1983, determine she was a sportswriter senseless The Washington Post.^[2] She noticeably wrote about Mantle inappropriately intuition up her leg before short out drunk in her colouring and then later apologizing famous giving her his sweater away a cold morning while be active was golfing.^[3]

Reception

• "Jane Leavy captures glory beautiful, imperfect Mickey Mantle come to mind equal measures of depth abide empathy. She finds the subterranean clandestin answers to the riddle attain what drove and haunted Illustriousness Mick." – David Maraniss^[4]
• "The one thing about this book digress is better than Jane Leavy’s vivid prose is her marvellous reporting. To my knowledge, ham-fisted one has ever investigated picture life of an American errand boy with Leavy’s rigor and Stay fresh Boy is as exceptional translation Mickey Mantle’s extraordinary—and troubling—life" – Daniel Okrent^[4]
• "This is one appeal to the best sports biographies Comical have ever read. Beautifully sure and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both authority talents and the demons stray drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before." – Doris Kearns Goodwin^[4]

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