
Mickey Mantle
Ronald A. Reis(Author)
Chelsea House Publishers
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2008
Book
Hardback
130 pages
978-0-7910-9546-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Broomall
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Young adult
Illustrations
full-colour & black-&-white photographs, statistics, chronology & timeline, sidebars, glossary, bibliography, further reading, web sites, index
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7910-9546-1 (9780791095461)
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Person
Ronald A. Reis is the author of 15 books, including young adult biographies of Eugenie Clark, Jonas Salk, and Lou Gehrig.