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Author: Tony Castro

TONY CASTRO is a Harvard and Baylor University-educated historian, Napoleonic scholar and author of several books, including the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power, which Publishers Weekly acclaimed as “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time.” He is also the author of critically recognized biographies of Ernest Hemingway and baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio, as well as a dual biography of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. He is currently working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Living in the Shadow of Ruben Salazar

I HAD BEEN IN LOS ANGELES ONLY a couple of days in 1978 when the unique pressures on Chicano journalists in this

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June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro Hispanics, Latinos, Los Angeles, Politics, Pop Culture LA HERALD EXAMINER, latinos, Los Angeles, RUBEN SALAZAR

Why I’ve Written About Mickey Mantle

I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE double tragedy of Mickey’s youth and his death hanging over him and how he loses the one

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May 28, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, Mantle, New York, Pop Culture, Yankees baseball, Mickey Mantle, Yankees

I Believe in Tom Wolfe, the Writer Almighty…

  THE POPE WALKED into the office today. His presence was high-fashion pietistic. Divine off-white three-piece suit, his manicured hands cradling a

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May 27, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro New York, Politics, Pop Culture New Journalism, pop culture, Tom Wolfe10 Comments on I Believe in Tom Wolfe, the Writer Almighty…

The Religion of Sports: From Michelangelo to Derek Jeter

IF I WERE TO SAY MICHELANGELO AND SISTINE CHAPEL, what image would immediately come to mind? For most people, I think, it

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May 19, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro Babe Ruth, Baseball, DiMaggio, Jesus Christ, Mantle, New York, Politics, Pop Culture, Religion, Sports, Yankees faith, Michelangelo, Muscular Jesus, nostalgia, Sistine Chapel, Sports

Of Henry Cisneros, Dreams and Mortality

MY FATHER NEVER said so, but I always got the impression that he wished Henry Cisneros had been his son. Henry and

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May 15, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, Politics, Pop Culture, Sports1 Comment on Of Henry Cisneros, Dreams and Mortality

When We All Wanted To Be Hemingway

A CHILD OF THE BOOMER generation, I grew up desperately wanting to be Ernest Hemingway. To run with the bulls in Pamplona. To

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May 7, 2023June 1, 2023 Tony Castro Bullfights, Ernest Hemingway, France, Pop Culture, Spain

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The New York Times has acclaimed historian and author Tony Castro as the definitive biographer of baseball's greatest of all time Mickey Mantle. Educated at Baylor and Harvard, Tony is a former Washinton Post national correspondent and senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Signed copies of all his books are available at https://tonycastrobooks.com.

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