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

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

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

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

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

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