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12%OFFTony Castro - DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers - 9781630761240 - V9781630761240
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DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers

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Description for DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers Hardback. "A portrait of baseball legends Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle"-- Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America celebrating its recent triumph over Nazism and ever-curious about the new age of color television, rocket ships, and technology. Tony Castro shows DiMag and Mick as fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and reveals the rite of passage of two men who would go down in baseball immortality – DiMaggio as he reluctantly ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781630761240
SKU
V9781630761240
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99-15

About Tony Castro
Tony Castro is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son that has been hailed by The New York Times as the best biography about the Hall of Fame baseball legend. He is also the author of the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America. Castro was a Nieman Fellow at ... Read more

Reviews for DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers
This is a dream of a book. Castro, author of perhaps the best biography of Mickey Mantle, America's Prodigal Son, takes on the myth that in 1951, Joe DiMaggio, in his last season, snubbed the rookie who would replace him in center field for baseball's greatest dynasty. Castro offers a revisionist history of the friendship of the two Yankee greats. ... Read more

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