THE LAST BOY
Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Author: Leavy, Jane

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Harper/HarperCollins
Pages: 464
Price ( Hardback ): $27.99
Publication Date: October 12, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-06-088352-2
Category: Nonfiction
Classification: Biography

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Another biography of the late Yankee slugger—but this candid, compassionate portrait is worth a dugout full of the others.

Sports journalist Leavy (Sandy Koufax, 2002) produces an enduring, though certainly not endearing, portrait of The Mick. Eschewing traditional chronology, the ...

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