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Baseball by the Book

Episode 290: "The Last Boy"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

"Don't be like me," Mickey Mantle told the world toward the end of his life. Emerging from a troubled childhood in Oklahoma, the Mick became baseball's biggest star under the bright lights of New York. But alcoholism and other personal demons trailed him throughout his life, overshadowing his prodigious home runs and World Series rings. Acclaimed author Jane Leavy returns to the podcast to discuss her biography of Yankee legend.

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The one

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The one side

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I tell the me, I believe

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The Giants

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The Giants

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The Pellant!

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The Giants!

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The giant!

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The one constant through all the years, Ray,

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has been baseball.

0:19.0

Oh, put me in cold.

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I'm ready to play today.

0:40.3

Hey, everybody. me, I can be center of you. Hey everybody, I'm Justin McGuire. This is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

0:48.1

That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

0:56.5

Today, Jane Levy returns to the podcast to talk about her Mickey Mantle biography, The Last Boy.

1:03.0

We'll get to it in just a minute.

1:05.6

First, though, I want to thank John Carvalho, Tony Cruz, and Matthew Anderson for becoming supporters of

1:12.5

Baseball by the Book on Patreon. And remember, if you want to join them, all you have to do is go

1:17.8

to patreon.com slash baseball by the book. Once you're there, you can unlock various benefit levels

1:24.6

for as little as $2 a month, including access to bonus episodes of

1:28.7

baseball by the book. Coming up later this month, we have a bonus episode that will be available

1:34.0

to all patrons of baseball by the book. It's an in-depth look at the baseball documentary done

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