Maris Mantle, Tony Castro
Maris Mantle, Tony Castro
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Maris & Mantle
Two Yankees, Baseball Immortality, and the Age of Camelot

Author: Tony Castro

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/17/2023

Synopsis

The never before told story of the profound and compelling friendship between the two New York legends.

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris are forever intertwined in baseball history thanks to the unforgettable 1961 season, when the two Yankee icons spurred each other to new heights in pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record. History has largely overlooked the bond between the two men not as titans of their sport, but as people.

Guided by Tony Castro, bestselling author and foremost chronicler of Mantle, listeners will journey into history, from the Yankees' blockbuster trade for Maris, whose acquisition reignited Mantle's career after a horrendous 1959 season, to the heroics of 1961 and far beyond.

This dual biography is a thoroughly researched, emotionally gripping portrait that brings Yankees lore alive.

About Tony Castro

Tony Castro, whom the New York Times has called the definitive biographer of Mickey Mantle, is a Harvard and Baylor-educated historian and author of seven books. Mantle: The Best There Ever Was is the finale of his Mickey Mantle Trilogy, which includes Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son and DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers. His other books include Gehrig & the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud and Hemingway: Spain, The Bullfights, and A Final Rite of Passage.

Tony is also the author of the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America, which Publishers Weekly acclaimed as "brilliant . . . a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time."

His poignant coming-of-age memoir The Prince of South Waco: American Dreams and Great Expectations was hailed by distinguished Texas editor and educator Tony Pederson for its "startling and frequently disturbing insights into growing up Hispanic and talented in Texas in the 1950s and 1960s. He lays bare the tortured and sometimes heartbreaking soul of his youth and life as a young adult."

As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Tony studied under Homeric scholar and translator Robert Fitzgerald, Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, and French history scholars Laurence Wylie and Stanley Hoffman.

Tony lives in Los Angeles with his wife Renee LaSalle and Jeter, their black Labrador retriever. Their two grown sons, Trey and Ryan, also reside in Southern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

"Maris & Mantle" is a great nostalgia piece. If you remember the M and M boys, you know the general outline of the story but author Tony Castro has managed to include some snippets from previously untapped sources and those items help further illustrate the depths of each player's struggle to negoti......more

Goodreads review by Andy

As a writer myself, I cannot begin to imagine the infinite and inherent difficulties that have to come with writing a dual biography. It's an insane task, and yet Tony Castro has done it here, and done it beautifully. My only qualm (and it's fairly small) is that the book seems to focus more heavily......more

Goodreads review by Will

A terrific duel-biography centered around 1961, the year of the race to beat Babe Ruth's single season 60 home run record. I read it as Yankee fan... If you are not into baseball, or not into baseball history, this book isn't for you. But with baseball in lockdown and the 2022 season in question, I......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Maris and Mantle tells the biographies of both Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They both had the poverty stricken driven childhood. Both of them pushed hard by their fathers to develop great baseball skill. They both did but the interesting story is not how they became great ball players but how they......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Not sure Tony Castro made a good case for seeing Mantle, Maris and the home run race of 1961 as emblematic of Camelot (he made a better case for how Maris, Mantle, and Ruth shared turbulent family lives), but this dual biography is a good read nonetheless. What I found most interesting was how Mantl......more

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