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Informationen zum Autor Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post , is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy , The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood , and the comic novel Squeeze Play . She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts. Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post , is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy , The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood , and the comic novel Squeeze Play . She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts. John Bedford Lloyd's film credits include Philadelphia, The Abyss, and Crossing Delancy and he has made numerous television appearances on shows such as Law & Order, Spin City and The Equalizer. Klappentext Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy , returns with a biography of an American original—Mickey Mantle. Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with friends and family, teammates and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle’s life, mining the mythology of The Mick to excavate the true story of an illustrious talent with an achingly damaged soul. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together reminiscences from friends and family of the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth’s home run crown in the summer of 1961. The same boy who would never grow up. Leavy transcends the hyperbole of hero worship to reveal the man behind the coast-to-coast smile who grappled with a wrenching childhood, crippling injuries, and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. In The Last Boy , Leavy chronicles her search to find out more about the person he was and, given who he was, to explain his paradoxical hold on a generation of baseball fans who were seduced by that lopsided, gap-toothed grin. Ultimately, though, with The Last Boy , Leavy discovers that what we remember of our heroes—and even what they remember of themselves—is only where the story begins. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
