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By Fritz Peterson
Outskirts Press
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FRITZ PETERSON WAS A NEW YORK YANKEE WHO NEVER STOPPED SEARCHING FOR GOD.
In the 1960s in New York City, every young boy dreamed of playing for the Yankees. The difference was that Fritz Peterson was born with a pitcher's arm that would take him to "the Show." In his rookie year, in 1966, Peterson had the opportunity to play with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Then he made a name for himself-both on the field and off.
Like so many of his colleagues, Peterson was a prankster; and as his story unfolds, we are given a home plate look into the quirks and foibles of his time with such baseball greats as Whitey Ford, Thurman Munson, Jim Bouton, Bobby Murcer, Joe Pepitone, and Mel Stottlemyre. In 1973, Peterson was involved in what Sports Illustrated called the most highly publicized trade in all of sports history -when he and a teammate traded wives. The storm of negative publicity and disapproval damaged his career. But whether in his very public years as a baseball player or in his later, private struggle with prostate cancer, Fritz Peterson continued to seek "salvation" and ultimately came to understand the truth of God's Grace. |
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By Peter Golenbock
The Lyons Press
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In Peter Golenbock’s shocking and revealing first novel, Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero, and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family. If the revelations in Jim Bouton’s Ball Four were the first crack in the Mantle legend, then 7 smashes the myth to reveal the human being within. Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle’s friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional portrait, Mickey--now in heaven--realizes that he’s carrying a huge weight on his shoulders, as he did throughout his life. He needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them. He wants to make amends to the people he hurt, especially those dear to him; the fans he ignored and alienated; and the public who made him into a hero. Mickey never felt he deserved the adulation, could never live up to it, and tried his damnedest to prove it to everyone. The fact that he was human made the public love him that much more. This Mickey Mantle is revealed as a man who lived in fear--fear of failure, of success, of life beyond baseball, and of commitment. His was a life filled with sex, yet devoid of deeper satisfactions. From the alcohol-fueled good times and bad, to the emptiness when the party was finally over, 7 has it all. Through the recounting of his exploits on and off the field, some of them side-splittingly hilarious, some disturbing, and others that will make your head shake in sympathy, Mickey comes clean in this novel in the way he never could in real life. 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel puts you inside the locker room and bedroom with an American Icon every bit as flawed and human as we are. |
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By Mickey Herskowitz & David Mantle
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Some say he was the greatest ever—a rare combination of power and speed who made acrobatic catches and never failed to get a hit when his team needed it most. The son of an Oklahoma miner, he was the anchor in center field for a Yankees team that won seven world championships. He was three times the league MVP, he won the Triple Crown in 1956, and in 1961 he dueled teammate Roger Maris in a thrilling race for the single-season home run record. He was so famous that to identify him people didn’t even bother to say his last name or even all of his first. He was known, simply, as The Mick.
Mickey Mantle is the first-ever illustrated biography published with the support of the Mantle family. Covering his entire life from his impoverished youth to his glorious career to his poignant sunset years, it features rare photos and never-before-seen memorabilia, with 10 pull-out, removable facsimiles. It also includes intimate stories collected over the years by his sons and his friend, writer Mickey Herskowitz— stories that will be new even to the most avid Mantle enthusiasts. This book is an absolute must for Mantle fans of every stripe, Yankees fans, and baseball fans in general. |
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By Tony Castro
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In Mickey Mantle we see America’s romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort in power during a time when might did make right. But if his 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. Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son is both an explosive biography of a fascinating and enduring sports hero and a telling look at American society in his time. During six years of research, former Sports Illustrated writer Tony Castro interviewed more than 250 friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking buddies of one of America’s most famous sports stars. |
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By Mickey Mantle
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Mickey Mantle-arguably the greatest Yankee ever-tells all, from his childhood in Oklahoma to the bright lights of Yankee Stadium. |
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By Randall Swearingen
Sports Publishing LLC
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"When you're playing, especially if you were alone or if you'd struck out a couple times, you'd say, `What the h--'s it all for, anyway?' But if you hit a home run and your teammates jumped all over you, you knew what it's all for." -- Mickey Mantle No one knew the meaning of being a great teammate like Mickey Mantle. For a man who many still consider to be the greatest natural baseball player of his time--if not for all times--Mantle was remarkably humble, considerate, and team-oriented. Unlike many athletes today, who some believe are overpaid and egocentric, Mantle personified the meaning of teammate; and those who knew him and played beside him relate their stories in Randall Swearingen's A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle. Swearingen sheds light on another side of Mantle's legend using fresh testimonials from several of the Mick's teammates, who all agree on No. 7's most amazing characteristic: He helped them win ballgames. Unheard stories interweave with compelling new interviews describing intriguing teammate angles on more than 20 of Mantle's greatest games, which he played despite nagging injuries and personal troubles that somehow never obstructed his ultimate goal--giving his teammates everything he had on the field. Also included in this book are appendices detailing every teammate who had the honor of playing alongside the Mick, from the beginning of his career with the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids to his retirement from the New York Yankees in 1968. Colorfully illustrated with Swearingen's collection of oneof- a-kind photographs, A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle reminds us that Mickey Mantle was an immense talent who always put his team ahead of himself. Relive, through his teammates' eyes, how Mantle's heart was as big as the tapemeasure home runs that awed a generation. Perfect for baseball fans of all ages! |
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By William Liederman
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A behind-the-scenes exposé from the founder and manager of the world's most famous sports bar.
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By Rick Hines & Dave Platta
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By Jane Leavy
Harper
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