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Article: Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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Tony Castro. Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son. Washington DC: Brassey's, 2002. 343 pp. Cloth, $26.95.
To baby boomer generation baseball fans, such as writer Tony Castro, Mickey Mantle remains the quintessential hero. Adult men of this generation do not find it strange when Bob Costas confesses that he placed a Mantle baseball card in his wallet, nor do they consider it embarrassing when Castro admits to weeping upon learning of Mantle's death. But why has Mantle attained this heroic status? Castro attempts to answer this question by portraying the New York Yankee great as representative of an era. According to Castro, Mantle had no desire to be the next ...