Mickey Mantle: Rookie in Pinstripes

Major League Baseballs Opening Day 1951. Nineteen-year-old Mickey Mantle puts on the New York Yankees famous white pinstriped uniform. His stomach roils. Sweat beads his brow. Today is his first major league game in front of a near-capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium and there is one man Mickey doesnt want to disappoint above all others: his father. Mickey Mantle: Rookie in Pinstripes is the uplifting true story of how a painfully shy teenager from rural Commerce Oklahoma became one of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball. While he looked to Joe DiMaggio for inspiration and dreamed of someday playing with that great New York Yankee Mickeys true hero was his dad. Raised during the Depression Mickey learned how to catch hit and field the ball from his father Elvin. In high school Mickey suffered a football injury that revealed a serious bone disorder. He wondered if he would ever play baseball again. But with the support and love of his father he overcame his affliction and signed with the New York Yankees in 1949. A moving story of Mickeys early years in baseball from his difficult rookie season to his triumphant return in 1951 Mickey Mantle portrays the everlasting bond between father and son and the making of one of baseballs greatest legends.