Mickey and Willie
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their fa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-71650-7
- EAN: 9780307716507
- Produktnummer: 15724553
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'159 KB
- Abbildungen: 3 8-PAGE INSERTS
Über den Autor
ALLEN BARRA is the author of Inventing Wyatt Earp, The Last Coach, and Yogi Berra, as well as several essay collections. He is a regular contributor to such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, and Salon.
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