The Mick [Hardcover]

Mickey Mantle (Author), Herb Gluck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1985

Mickey Mantle-arguably the greatest Yankee ever-tells all, from his childhood in Oklahoma to the bright lights of Yankee Stadium.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (May 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385194560
• ISBN-13: 978-0385194563
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,062,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book by Mantle, April 6, 2008

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Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mick (Paperback)

Mickey Mantle was my childhood baseball idol. This book was first published in the early 1980s. I am fond of this book because even as a adult with a successful career I was still awestruck by Mantle. The book cover was different from the one shown here. I was working at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo California and went I heard that mantle was doing a book sign of this new book over in Westwood, I took a very long lunch break, went to Brentano's in Westwood bought the book and waited in a long linr to talk to Mickey and get his signature.

This is a well-written book about Mantle's life in baseball and includes a lot about his frienship and relationship with Billy Martin. All Mantle's books are well-written because he had the good esense to pick excellent sportswriters to ghost write for him. Mantle still appeared to be in good health at the time although the gray was showing in his hair. Liver cancer possibly a result of his heavy drinking and partying during his career took him out of this world too soon. The controversy over his liver transplant came much later as did his final book which was his best and had a heavy message. This book doesn't do that but it does give Mantle's side of the story on a lot of issues that were told much differently by the media. This included the famous brawl at the Copa Cabana bar that many think trigered the trade of Billy Martin to Kansas City. Casey Stengel loved Martin's heart and aggressiveness in the field, but he grew tired of Billy's antics that seemed to be corrupt his star player (Mickey Mantle).

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars touching book on the baseball life of Mickey, December 2, 2002

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O. Rios (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mick (Paperback)

this book reminds me of the good old days of baseball where nothing mattered but baseball, and you had stars like Mantle, Maris, DiMaggio, Aaron, Killebrew, Kaline, Drysdale, Koufax, Berra, and Whitey Ford to name a few.
the book, The Mick, talks about the entire baseball life of Mickey Charles Mantle, to hero and baseball legend.

the book begins with how Mickey's dad brought him up around baseball and how his father taught him to become a switch hitter. Mickey talks about girls, booze, and other fun stuff he did while playing ball for Joplin and the Yankees.

when you read this book, you almost feel like you're there with Mickey when this stuff is happening. you're there when he hits a 536 foot homer, or when he busted his knee in the World Series. you know how he feels when he says he hated to play against Dodger great, Sandy Koufax, and you know what his emotions were like once he retired from the game that he says was the only thing he knew how to do.

you learn about Casey Stengel and how he really cared for and pushed for Mickey to be a great player.

great book on the baseball life of Mickey Mantle. i recommened this book highly to anyone who likes baseball or to anyone who wants to read about the baseball life of The Mick.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was a pleasure to read., August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mick (Paperback)

At first, I just got this book because I had to do a book report, and since I like baseball, I thought that this book would be interesting. Although I neither liked the Yankees or really knew much about Mantle, this book had a good amount of information about his life before and with the Yankees, and turned out to be pretty good. Everything was from his point of view, of course, but that didn't make the book any less interesting. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about baseball or just Mantle and the Yankees in particular.