The Last Boy - Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer''s reputation in his latter years. In The Last Boy , Leavy plumbs the depths of the complex athlete, using copious first-hand research as well as her own memories, to show why The Mick remains the most beloved and misunderstood Yankee slugger of all time.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jane Leavy, Leavy Jane
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9780060883539
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088353-9
• Seiten: 512
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 29 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Sport > Ballsport; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Baseball, Science: general issues, Memoirs, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, history of sport, Local History, Sport: general, Biography: sport, United States of America, USA, General and world history, The Americas, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, HISTORY: United States / 21st Century, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION: Baseball / History, HISTORY: United States / State & Local / General, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)