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Prince Tut in Excelsus

PUBLISHED: November 12, 2002, The Los Angeles Times By TONY CASTRO LOS ANGELES — The most brilliant man I’ve ever known died last

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January 26, 2023February 14, 2023 Tony Castro Sports

Children of Two Worlds, Two Cultures

PUBLISHED: March 20, 2008, The Los Angeles Daily News By TONY CASTRO HOLLY DAGRES MIGHT BE ONE of the few women who can

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January 23, 2023February 14, 2023 Tony Castro Sports

America’s Celebrity Culture Presidency

PUBLISHED: January 29, 2008, The Los Angeles Daily News By TONY CASTRO WITH A LIFE-SIZE REPLICA of the Oval Office, the seal of

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January 23, 2023February 14, 2023 Tony Castro Sports

Jerry Brown’s Graying Brownies

They called themselves “Brownies” – the starry-eyed young activists who in the 1970s made possible Jerry Brown’s quixotic first two terms as

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January 21, 2023February 14, 2023 Tony Castro Sports1 Comment on Jerry Brown’s Graying Brownies

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

Remembering Michael Jackson

The following appeared as a column in the Los Angeles Daily News June 26, 2009, a day after Michael Jackson’s death at

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October 17, 2021February 22, 2023 Tony Castro Hollywood, Pop Culture, Sports Enid Jackson, King of Pop, Michael Jackson

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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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