A unique baseball reference that re-creates the excitement of Mickey Mantle's extraordinary home runs, tracking his career from rookie sensation through the glory years of the Yankees with Yogi Berra and Roger Maris. 16 pages of photographs.
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A unique baseball reference that re-creates the excitement of Mickey Mantle's extraordinary home runs, tracking his career from rookie sensation through the glory years of the Yankees with Yogi Berra and Roger Maris. 16 pages of photographs.
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Add this copy of Explosion! Mickey Mantle's Legendary Home Runs to cart. $104.95, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Arbor House.
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Very good in Very good jacket. The format is approximately 5.875 inches by 8.5 inches. xiii, [1], 400, [2] pages. Illustrations. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Mickey Mantle, a muscular, blond Oklahoman. promising much, becoming one of the Yankee greats. Mickey Mantle, arriving when television was in its infancy and becoming one of the medium's first stars, leading the Yankees, playing in the world series almost every fall and becoming the greatest American league draw card since Ruth and having as center-field counterparts in New York Willie Mays and Duke Snider. Lengthy section on Mickey Mantle's 536 Regular-Season Home Runs and other statistical information. The author interviewed hundreds of players, reporters, and fans to document this phenomenal record. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Mantle joined the New York Yankees in 1951 as a 19-year-old, and retired in 1968, unquestionably the most popular athlete in the Big Apple. In that time he hit 536 home runs, some of them prodigious smashes that probably traveled over 600 feet and many that went at least 500 feet. Gallagher, author of three previous books on the Bronx Bombers, here traces the ballplayer's career by focusing on his home runs. Additionally, he appends a statistical table of some 100 pages listing every blow by date, place, game score, Mantle's position in the batting order, etc. Most fans won't find such a microscopic examination in any other resource.
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