The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

About this book

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees but public revelations of alcoholism infidelity and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayers reputation in his latter years. In The Last Boy Leavy plumbs the depths of the complex athlete using copious first-hand research as well as her own memories to show why The Mick remains the most beloved and misunderstood Yankee slugger of all time.