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Baseball Prospectus Q&A
Part 1, by David Laurila
Margie and The Mick: Birmingham woman credited with providing full picture for Mickey Mantle book
Bob Carlton in The Birmingham News
Athletes’ cellphone self-portraits an unevolved idea that might have changed Mickey Mantle’s life
Jane’s commentary in the Los Angeles Times: “Imagine if Mickey Mantle, then in the early stages of destroying himself, had been exposed not by a faux Photoshopped clone but by irrefutable images of his self-destructive behavior. It might or might not have changed him. But, surely it would have changed the way we looked at him, what we laughed at and laughed off. It might even have saved his life.”
Phil Rogers in the Chicago Tribune
“Can’t recommend the Mickey Mantle biography by Jane Leavy highly enough”
Interview with BronxBanter
Interview with Alex Belth posted this morning
Harvard Courant: Top 3 Books from Moravian Book Shop
The Last Boy: “the definitive account of a damaged soul with an incredible talent.”
The Last Boy Holds #4 Spot on the NY Times Bestseller List
New Mickey Mantle Bio Resonates Today
Johnette Howard in ESPN.com: Few sports books provide a character study as sophisticated or expertly rendered as Leavy’s portrait of Mantle.
Book em: The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
Q&A in USA TODAY, November 3, 2010
Out of the Park
In the November 2010 issue of The Washingtonian.