by Allen Barra
20. Ibid., p. 26.
21. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 43.
22. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 8.
23. Mays, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 40.
24. Ibid., p. 39.
25. Ibid., p. 59.
26. Dick Young, “Farewell to Mickey Mantle,” Sport, April 1969.
27. Young, Sport, April 1969.
Chapter 3: No Other Enjoyment
1. Mays and Einstein, My Life in and Out of Baseball, p. 40.
2. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 24.
3. Ibid., p. 62.
4. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 16.
5. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 47.
6. Swearingen, A Great Teammate, p. 3.
7. Personal interview with Darell Royal for The Last Coach.
8. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 35.
9. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 19.
10. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 38.
11. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 20.
12. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 16.
13. Shahadi, Say Hey, p. 11.
14. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 19.
15. Ibid., p. 31.
16. Einstein, Willie Mays, p. 51.
17. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 41.
18. Hall, Mickey Mantle Before the Glory, p. 11.
19. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 34.
20. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 25.
21. Fullerton, Every Other Sunday, p. 67.
22. Birmingham News, September 13, 1936.
23. Fullerton, Every Other Sunday, p. 67.
24. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 71.
Chapter 4: Pass-the-Hat
1. Mantle, The Education of a Baseball Player, p. 15.
2. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 29.
3. Barra, Rickwood Field, p. 222.
4. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 86.
5. Ibid., p. 66.
6. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 22.
7. Ibid., p. 24.
8. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 79.
9. Mickey Mantle, speech at Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York, August 12, 1974.
10. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 81.
11. Ibid., p. 47.
12. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 26.
13. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, p. 51.
14. Barra, Rickwood Field, p. 230.
15. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 23.
16. Ibid., p. 34.
17. Personal interview, 2009.
18. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 32.
Chapter 5: A Dream Come True
1. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 27.
2. Ibid.
3. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 52.
4. Barra, interview with Rich Ashburn, Philadelphia, 1993.
5. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 47.
6. Joplin Globe, May 23, 1949.
7. Coffeyville Daily Journal, May 26, 1949.
8. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 117.
9. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 26.
10. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 115.
11. The Sporting News, March 15, 1952.
12. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 27.
13. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, p. 57.
14. Ibid., p. 62.
15. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 56.
16. Roger Kahn, interview with the author, January 2010.
17. Birmingham World, June 2, 1950.
18. Mays and Einstein, My Life in Baseball, p. 156.
Chapter 6: “This Is Your Chance”
1. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 30.
2. Ibid., p. 29.
3. Mantle, The Education of a Baseball Player, p. 13.
4. Ibid., p. 16.
5. Ibid., p. 19.
6. Ibid., p. 31.
7. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 31.
8. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 52.
9. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 46.
10. Hall, Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory, p. 25.
11. Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 52.
12. Ibid.
13. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 65.
14. Interview with the author, 2007.
15. Ford, Mantle, and Durso, Whitey and Mickey, p. 1.
16. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 53.
17. Ibid., p. 54.
Chapter 7: “You’re Going to Eat Steak”
1. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 35.
2. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 56.
3. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 55.
4. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey.
5. Pietrusza et al., Baseball, The Biographical Encyclopedia, p. 261.
6. Ibid., p. 262.
7. Mays, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 58.
8. Interview with the author, 2006.
9. Interview with the author, 1995.
10. Interview with the author, 2007.
11. Interview with the author, 2007.
12. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 81.
13. Ibid., p. 83.
14. Creamer, Stengel: His Life and Times, p. 267.
15. Ibid.
16. Interview with the author, 1987.
17. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 83.
18. Castro, Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son, p. 49.
19. Ford and Pepe, Slick, p. 41.
20. Durso, The Legend of Charles Dillon Stengel, p. 61.
21. Personal interview with the author, 2006.
22. Ibid.
23. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 67.
24. Ibid., p. 70.
25. Creamer, Stengel: His Life and Times, p. 271.
26. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 61.
27. Castro, Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son. p. 82.
28. Ibid., p. 61.
29. Personal interview with the author, 2009.
30. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 59.
31. Personal interview with the author, 2009.
32. Personal interview with the author, 2006.
Chapter 8: “Is That Mickey and Willie?”
1. Trimble, Yogi Berra, p. 123.
2. Personal interview with the author, 2007.
3. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 63.
4. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 68.
5. Mays and Einstein, Born To Play Ball, p. 21.
6. Hano and Schaap, “Mickey Mantle & Willie Mays,” p. 92.
7. Interview with the author, 2009.
8. Time, July 26, 1954.
9. Ibid.
10. Interview with the author, 2009.
11. Ford, Mantle, and Durso, Whitey and Mickey, p. 68.
12. Durocher and Linn, Nice Guys Finish Last, p. 272.
13. From a panel discussion at the Yogi Berra Museum, October 3, 2011: Neil Lanctot, Allen Barra, and Marty Appel.
14. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 63.
15. Ibid., p. 65.
16. Ibid., p. 67.
17. Mantle, Education of a Baseball Player, p. 56.
18. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 67.
19. Personal interview with the author, 2008.
20. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 119.
21. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 97.
22. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 92.
23. Kahn, The Era, p. 143.
24. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 93.
Chapter 9: “Greetings”
1. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 100.
2. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, p. 144.
3. Lundquist, Baseball: The Fan’s Magazine, June 1952.
4. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 95.
5. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 84.
6. Mantle, A Hero All His Life, p. 60.
7. New York Herald Tribune
, May 29, 1952.
8. New York Herald Tribune, May 28, 1952.
9. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 100.
10. Ibid.
11. Schaap, Mickey Mantle: The Indispensable Yankee, p. 54.
12. Sport, April 1953.
13. Schaap, p. 90.
14. Ibid.
15. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 148.
16. Ibid., p. 149.
17. Ibid., p. 149.
18. Irvin and Riley, Nice Guys Finish First, p. 94.
19. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 102.
20. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 37.
Chapter 10: “Right Up There with the Babe”
1. Schaap, Mickey Mantle: The Indispensable Yankee, p. 99.
2. Ibid., p. 124.
3. Interview of Jenkinson by the author, 2010.
4. Allen Barra, “Tripping Over Greatness,” Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2010.
5. Interview with the author, 1987.
6. Schapp, Mickey Mantle: The Indispensable Yankee, p. 100.
7. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 109.
8. Interview with the author, 2008.
9. Time, June 15, 1953.
10. Ibid.
11. Mantle and Epstein, The Mickey Mantle Story, p. 88.
12. Schaap, Mickey Mantle: The Indispensable Yankee, p. 100.
13. Personal interview with the author at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, April 4, 2010.
14. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 110.
15. Schaap, Mickey Mantle: The Indispensable Yankee, p. 104.
16. Ibid., p. 105.
17. Interview with the author, 2009.
18. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 87.
19. Interview with the author, 2010.
20. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 105.
21. Hano, Willie Mays, pp. 91–92.
22. New York World-Telegram and Sun, March 3, 1954.
23. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 47.
24. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 92.
25. Einstein, Willie’s Time, p. 145.
26. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 90.
27. Personal interview with the author, 2010.
28. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 110.
29. Cannon, New York Post, April 14, 1954.
30. The Sporting News, July 7, 1954.
31. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 111.
32. Time, July 26, 1954.
Chapter 11: “In Here, It’s 1954”
1. Einstein, Willie’s Time, p. 201.
2. Hano, A Day in the Bleachers, p. 1.
3. Ibid., pp. 119–21.
4. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 115.
5. Mays and Einstein, Born to Play Ball, p. 112.
6. Toots (film), directed by Kristi Jacobson.
7. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 47.
8. Berra and Kaplan, Ten Rings, p. 147.
9. Einstein, Willie’s Time, p. 125.
Chapter 12: “A Whole Different Ball Game”
1. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 106.
2. Young, Sport, May 1962.
3. Interview with author, 2008.
4. Letter from Charles Einstein to the author, 2003.
5. Dick Young, “The Man Who Handles Maris and Mantle,” Sport, May 1962.
6. Letter to the author, 1998.
7. Interview with the author, March 2010.
8. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 107.
9. Interview with the author, March 2010.
10. Durocher and Linn, Nice Guys Finish Last, p. 287.
11. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 245.
12. Povich, Washington Post, April 4, 1956.
13. Golenback, Dynasty, p. 276.
14. Snide, Sport, August 1959.
15. New York Daily News, July 22, 1956.
16. Personal interview with the author, March 2010.
17. Mantle and Pepe, My Favorite Summer, p. 156.
18. Personal interview with the author, 2008.
19. Personal interview with the author, 2009.
20. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 76.
21. Mays and Einstein, My Life In and Out of Baseball, p. 168.
22. Mantle and Herskowitz, A Hero All His Life, p. 90.
Chapter 13: “Exactly the Same Ballplayer”
1. Personal interview with the author, 2010.
2. Hano, Willie Mays, pp. 131–32.
3. Einstein, Willie’s Time, p. 111.
4. San Francisco Chronicle, November 14, 1958.
5. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 280.
6. Parade, February 16, 1958.
7. Frimrite, Sports Illustrated, March 25, 1985.
8. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 84.
9. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 199.
10. Young, Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 155.
12. Ibid., p. 171.
13. Barthel, Baseball Barnstorming and Exhibition Games, p. 4.
14. Ibid., p. 8.
15. New York Times, October 13, 1958.
16. Ibid.
17. Plimpton, Out of My League, pp. 44–45.
18. Ibid., p. 45.
19. Personal interview with the author, 1993.
20. Barthel, p. 184.
21. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 307.
22. Castro, Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son, p. 183.
23. Ibid.
Chapter 14: “Neither One of Us Was Joe DiMaggio”
1. “Mantle Fans Mays, Mays Fans Mantle,” Esquire, August 1968.
2. Letter to the author, 1997.
3. Letter to the author, 1997.
4. Hano, Willie Mays, p. 177.
5. Ibid., p. 161.
6. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, produced by the editors of Sport, 1962.
7. Ibid.
8. Esquire, August 1968.
9. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 193.
10. Personal interview with the author, 1983.
11. Bob Costas, Studio 42, MLB Network, February 9, 2010.
12. Ford, Mantle, and Durso, Mickey and Whitey: An Autobiography of the Yankees Years, p. 177.
13. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 150.
14. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 153.
15. Murray, The Best of Jim Murray, p. 77.
16. Ibid., p. 132.
17. Letter to the author, 1996.
18. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 148.
19. Mays and Sahadi, The Autobiography of Willie Mays, p. 181.
20. Newark Evening News, October 17, 1962.
21. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 161.
22. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 212.
23. Ibid., p. 198.
24. Einstein, Willie’s Time, p. 71.
Chapter 15: “Flash, Dash, and … a Nervous Rash”
1. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 200.
2. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 199.
3. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 164.
4. Ibid., p. 163.
5. Kahn, The Best of Sport, Sport Magazine Library, 1961, p. 25.
6. John Devaney, Sport, “The Ballplayers Reveal ‘My Favorite Mickey Mantle Stories,’ ” October 1964.
7. Ibid.
8. Personal interview with the author, 2008.
9. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 173.
10. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 208.
11. Issacs, Newsday, July 31, 1961.
12. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, p. 176.
13. Interview with the author, 2008.
14. Mantle and Herskowitz, All My Octobers, pp. 204–5.
Chapter 16: The Boys of Summer in Their Ruin
1. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 235.
2. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 165.
3. James, New Historical Baseball Abstract, p. 729.
4. Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 17, 1969.
5. Letter to the author, 1966.
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br /> 6. Mays and Sahadi, Say Hey, p. 235.
7. Hirsch, Wille Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 467.
8. Castro, Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son, p. 220.
9. Ibid.
10. Mays and Sahadi, pp. 256–57.
11. Ibid.
12. Lois, $ellebrity.
13. New York Post, January 8, 1968.
14. Interview with the author, March 2010.
15. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 137.
16. Ibid., p. 206.
17. Sport, “The Players’ Favorite Willie Mays Stories,” June 1967.
18. Interview with the author, June 2, 2010.
19. Smith, Women’s Wear Daily, September 21, 1968.
20. Sports Illustrated, March 25, 1985.
21. Miller, A Whole Different Ball Game, p. 100.
Chapter 17: Say Good-Bye to America
1. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 184.
2. Young, Sport, July 1969.
3. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 184.
4. Bryant, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, p. 364.
5. Ibid., p. 369.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 366.
8. Ibid., p. 160.
9. Letter to the author, 1993.
10. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 197.
11. Interview with the author, 2010.
12. Flood, The Way It Is, p. 70.
13. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, pp. 489–90.
14. Sports Illustrated, July 27, 1970.
15. Bouton, Ball Four, p. 212.
16. Ibid., p. 209.
17. Ibid., pp. 51–52.
18. Ibid., p. 64.
19. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 200.
20. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 453.
21. Ibid.
22. Young, New York Daily News, May 12, 1972.
23. Dickey, San Francisco Chronicle, August 5, 1971.
24. Personal interview, 2011.
25. Personal interview, January 2005.
26. Dickey, The Jock Empire, p. 32.
27. Golenbock, Amazin’, p. 308.
Chapter 18: Burden of Dreams
1. Personal interview, 2008.
2. Personal interview.
3. New York Times, September 12, 1980.
4. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, p. 537.
5. Pepe, New York Daily News, February 20, 1983.
6. Young, New York Post, February 22, 1983.
7. Falkner, The Last Hero, p. 214.
8. Personal interview, 2008.
9. Lois, $ellebrity, “Heroes” section.
10. Interview with the author, 2009.
11. Mantle and Gluck, The Mick, p. 197.
