Mickey Mantle: An Appreciation
Description
In a series of vignettes and anecdotes that are touching and funny and genuine is a portrait of the Mick that captures the two sides of him - the hero who was human, and the icon with a touch of Peck's bad boy. Here is mantle confronting his drinking problem, a quarter century after his retirement from baseball, stunned that his four sons have become his drinking buddies. Here is Mantle, bravely cracking jokes in a Dallas hospital after the controversy over the 11th hour liver transplant, and learning that the surgery was in vain and that Cancer had overtaken his body. Mantle's ca...
ISBN(s)
0688146996, 9780688146993
