Last Boy LP

<p>Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her <em>New York Times</em> runaway bestseller <em>Sandy Koufax</em> with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees but public revelations of alcoholism infidelity and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer's reputation in his latter years. In <em>The Last Boy</em> Leavy plumbs the depths of the complex athlete using copious first-hand research as well as her own memories to show why The Mick remains the most beloved and misunderstood Yankee slugger of all time. </p>