· "The Mick" is about the legendary Mickey Mantle. The best part of this book is that it's told in the first person by Mickey himself. Mick was a great guy, and he doesn't edit himself in this book. My favorite part of this book was his upbringings. Any baseball fan knows the guy was a legend on the field, but his origins are less known.5/5(5). Growing up and to this day, Mickey Mantle is my all time favorite ballplayer. Written simply and with details that baseball fans would love to read. The Mick is a candid self portrait of an American legend. Mantle acknowledges that he was a far better and committed ballplayer than husband and father/5. · Willie Mays played 22 seasons while, due to injuries, Mickey Mantle played Thus, Willie definitely compiled higher career numbers with the additional 4 seasons. In order to try to create an apples-apples perspective on the stats, we’ve calculated Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.
"The Mick" is about the legendary Mickey Mantle. The best part of this book is that it's told in the first person by Mickey himself. Mick was a great guy, and he doesn't edit himself in this book. My favorite part of this book was his upbringings. Any baseball fan knows the guy was a legend on the field, but his origins are less known. The official Mickey Mantle website is the definitive guide to the life and times of one of sports most loved, most famous and biggest hitters in baseball history. The site contains a variety of biographical material gathered by friends, family and baseball aficionados. The Mick ® - The Greatest Power Switch Hitter in Baseball History. 7 - Mickey Mantle wore #6 when he made his big league debut with the Bronx Bombers, changed to #7, and on Mickey Mantle Day, at Yankee Stadium, June 8, , The Mick's #7 was retired and he was a given a bronze plaque to be hung on the center field wall near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins.
The Mick. MANTLE, Mickey. Item Number: New York: Doubleday Company, First edition of the Yankee legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Mickey Mantle on the half-title page and additionally inscribed by him below on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written with Herb Gluck. - Explore Mandy Stephen's board "The Mick, Mickey Mantle", followed by people on Pinterest. See more ideas about mickey mantle, the mick, mantle. A fine and quite well-written walk through the nostalgia of Mickey Mantle's life and career (who I idolized as a kid in Jersey), with a goodly amount of insight into the strategy of baseball. Not surprisingly, he does not dwell on the self - destructive tendencies in his personality that arguably cut his amazing career short by 5 or more years, but there are many other biographies that deal with that.
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