The Last Boy LP

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 ballplayer's 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.

Author: Jane Leavy
Publisher: Harper Large Print
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 784
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780061774881
Large Print

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/16/2011 pg. 32

About the Author
Leavy, Jane: -

Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.