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Category: Mantle

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

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

A Conversation with Author Tony Castro

New York Times bestselling author Tony Castro talks about his new book Maris & Mantle: Two Yankees, Immortality and the Age of Camelot, and the

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May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, Mantle Camelot, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yankees

‘DiMag & Mick’ Renews Debate: Who Was Greater?

Since 1951, Joe DiMaggio‘s last season and Mickey Mantle‘s rookie year, fans have been debating which of the two New York Yankee

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February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, DiMaggio, Mantle, New York, Pop Culture, Yankees Heroes, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yankees

‘DiMag & Mick’ Reveals Mickey Mantle’s True Love

“Above Grand Central Station, there used to be this incredibly fabulously opulent apartment that looked like a palace that the original architect

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February 13, 2023February 16, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, Mantle, New York, Pop Culture, Sports, Yankees baseball, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yankees

Q&A With Tony Castro About ‘DiMag & Mick’

Tony Castro is the author of the new book DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers. He also has written Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal

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December 9, 2022February 17, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, DiMaggio, Ernest Hemingway, Hollywood, Mantle, New York, Pop Culture, Sports, Yankees

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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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