Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard

by Andrew O'Toole, Marty Appel (Foreword by)

Overview

Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. In Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sports culture had two such figures. Undoubtedly, DiMaggio and Mantle are two of the most revered names in baseball literature. However, there is one particular moment that has been overlooked by baseball historians and writers: the 1951 pennant-winning New York Yankees team—DiMaggio's last year and Mantle's rookie season. For that one year, the paths of these two baseball icons converged, the naissance of Mantle's career poignantly juxtaposed with the slow descent of DiMaggio's final season. Strangers in the Bronx is more than a chronicle of a World Series–winning team, it is also a study of heroes: the decline of an all-too mortal American icon and the emergence of the newest sensation in sport.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629370279
Publisher:	Triumph Books
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrew O'Toole is a freelance writer who has previously authored seven books, including Paul Brown: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Football’s Most Innovative Coach and Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn. He lives in Maineville, Ohio. Marty Appel is the author of 18 books, including the best-seller Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss.

Table of Contents

Foreword Marty Appel vii

Preface: To Be Young and a Yankee ix

Prologue: We Want You on Our Side xiii

1 You Can Look It Up 1

2 Play Ball with the Yankees 9

3 This Might Be My Last Year 37

4 This Kid Ain't Logical 49

5 It Just Isn't True 83

6 The Ol' Perfesser and the Dago 135

7 The Kansas City Blues 159

8 A Strained Situation 177

9 No Breath to Spare 205

10 God Is in His Heaven 237

11 Banzai DiMaggio 265

Acknowledgments 279

Bibliography 281