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 enlarge | Author: Peter Golenbock
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 430664
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1599212706
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781599212708
ASIN: 1599212706
Publication Date: April 3, 2007
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 Home Run!!! July 21, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Peter, it was a pleasure to read the book. I must admit there was nothing in there that should suprise anyone. It was your typical well written book. A couple of typos. Also, a contradiction or two on the year and age at death. Mick also batted .356 in 1956, not .352. All in all it is a great book and full of good stories. Your having known Mickey and interviewing each of his teammates for Dynasty is enviable. I am sure you heard a lot of stories you could not use in Dynasty. I am now seeing that people are talking about the book without having read it, as you told me to do. I will not make that mistake again. I would have missed a lot of fun by being hardheaded. Sincerely, Mike
Golenbock knows baseball July 16, 2007
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
Peter Golenbock has interviewed personally the players in this book. It is true and unexpurgated baseball at its best. True fans will love it and guys like Swearington should remember that "what goes around comes around." This book is a great read, not watered down to keep the puritans happy.
Excellent read, excellent audio too July 16, 2007
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you are a baseball fan you will love this book. The audio version sounds just like the Mick!!!
 One, Two, Three Strikes - He's Out! July 7, 2007
18 out of 23 found this review helpful
There is a major contradiction in this book before the first chapter begins. The copyright page contains a disclaimer that states that references to real people, places, etc. are used fictitiously, come from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Then, the second page of the Introduction states that Mickey's friends swear the incidents in the book are true. I personally know many of Mickey's teammates and I have not found one yet who claims any of the stories are real. STRIKE ONE.
The author claims to know Mickey well enough to psychoanalyze him yet he incorrectly states several important facts about Mickey's life and career such as his age at death, the number of world championship teams he was on and the name of Mickey's first son. STRIKE TWO.
Golenbock is a gifted writer who has authored many non-fiction baseball books. It is unfortunate, that at this stage in his successful career, he elected to write a trashy and degrading novel, from his own imagination, about one of American's greatest baseball icons. STRIKE THREE - HE'S OUT!
RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "WARNING THIS IS RATED XXX-MINUS!" June 12, 2007
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
How's this, for the way to start a review? I am far from being a prude, but I warn! I absolutely warn! 90% of the population not to buy this book, or you will be offended! The publisher of this book has a warning (Like the one on a cigarette package.) on the cover that says, and I quote: Mickey says: "If y'all don't want to read about sex, don't buy this book." I say: "Reading about sex is one thing, but totally offending all women on the planet is another! In fact, this will offend any men who are polite and caring!" This is a book that didn't really need to be written, and I can see why Mantle's family was upset. Now, despite the author slyly hiding behind the word "novel" in the heading, he contradicts that mask, in his introduction, on page viii when he writes: "Mickey's friends swear that the incidents in this book are true." He also writes: "All I know is that Mickey's friends who have read the manuscript say this is the closest you will ever get to the reality of Mickey's life." This book is demeaning garbage. You can barely go 2 paragraphs without Mickey making a derogatory comment about women with a well-used word that starts with "P". (I'm trying to stay within Amazon's decency restrictions.) And that word may not even be in the top 5 derogatory descriptions he uses throughout the book. This book not only tears Mickey down lower than you would think possible, but it also takes Billy Martin down beneath, even what his biggest detractor's could imagine. Their alcoholic, misogynistic, lowlife, behavior, is totally offensive, to any respectable human being. There's more filth I could describe, but it wouldn't pass the decency levels on this web-site. P.S. The fact that this story is supposed to take place in heaven, is the biggest abomination of all!
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