Author: Ronald A. Reis Publisher: Checkmark Books ISBN: 9780791099001 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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This title presents a comprehensive biography that details Mickey Mantle's triumphs and setbacks. Growing up in small-town, Depression-era Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle heard the same plea day in and day out from his parents: 'Get out of the house and play some baseball!' Sooner than anyone expected, Mantle was a New York Yankee in 1951. Five years later, the switch-hitting phenomenon was on his way to stardom, completing the season with a Triple Crown for the highest batting average and most home runs and RBIs. Hailed as the successor to the great Joe DiMaggio, Mantle felt the pressure of success and faced difficulties stemming from physical infirmity and, later, alcohol abuse.In ""Mickey Mantle"", discover how this baseball great came to grips with his addiction, becoming a role model for the clean and sober life, and is now remembered as an American baseball hero.
Author: Mickey Mantle Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9780671219260 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 219
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An autobiography with alternate chapters of instruction in the art and techniques of playing baseball. The author tells of his "dizzying rise from Joplin, Missouri, to Yankee Stadium [and of] the ultimkate triumph over the crippling physical handicaps that always shadowed his career."
Author: Jonah Winter Publisher: Schwartz & Wade ISBN: 1101933526 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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The ONLY nonfiction picture book about New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. From award-winning author Jonah Winter and #1 New York Times bestselling artist C. F. Payne comes this extraordinary picture-book biography that traces Mickey Mantle’s unparalleled baseball career. He could run from home plate to first base in 2.9 seconds. He could hit a ball 540 feet—the longest home run in major league history. He was the greatest switch hitter ever to play the game. And he did it all despite broken bones, pulled muscles, strains, and sprains, from his shoulders to his feet. How did a poor country boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, become one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players of all time? This is the story.
Author: John Marlin Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 1467704024 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Mickey Mantle was one of baseball’s best players—and perhaps the greatest athlete of his time. Follow Mickey from his childhood days playing baseball in Commerce, Oklahoma, to his celebrated eighteen-year career with the New York Yankees, to his induction into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a true sports hero!
Author: Randy Roberts Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465094424 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland. In A Season in the Sun, acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith recount the defining moment of Mantle's legendary career: 1956, when he overcame a host of injuries and critics to become the most celebrated athlete of his time. Taking us from the action on the diamond to Mantle's off-the-field exploits, Roberts and Smith depict Mantle not as an ideal role model or a bitter alcoholic, but a complex man whose faults were smoothed over by sportswriters eager to keep the truth about sports heroes at bay. An incisive portrait of an American icon, A Season in the Sun is an essential work for baseball fans and anyone interested in the 1950s.
Author: Ronald A. Reis
Author: Mickey Mantle
Author: Mickey Mantle
Author: Jonah Winter
Author: John Marlin
Author: John Marlin
Author: Lonnie Wheeler
Author: Mickey Mantle
Author: Sam Hasegawa
Author: Randy Roberts