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MANTLE TRAILER

Category: Yankees

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

The Baseball Presidency: The Making of George W. Bush

This story was originally published in Inside Houston magazine in 2001. GEORGE W. BUSH REMEMBERS THE most memorable experience of his freshman year

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February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 Tony Castro Baseball, national politics, Politics, Pop Culture, presidency, Sports, 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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