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Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son (review)

Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son (review) nine vol. 12. 2 who got how many hits and when--and the history of ballplayers and managers as tourists and national actors. In crisp and often dramatic prose, Elfers gives readers interesting and at times amusing stories of famous Hall of Famers who took their game overseas. He also provides analysts of a more academic bent a coherent and balanced account of the ways business practices and a changing international climate helped to restructure the national game in the early twentieth century. Some may now reinterpret this material with an eye to the historical literature on U.S. cultural imperialism and other relevant topics not fully engaged here, and others will uncover unused non­English language sources that document local reactions to the White Sox and Giants. All will find Elfers's work an indispensable basis for rethinking this pivotal historical era. Tony Castro. Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son. Washington dc: Brassey's, 2002. 343 pp. Cloth, $26.95. Ron Briley To baby boomer generation baseball fans, such as writer Tony Castro, Mickey Mantle remains the quintessential hero. Adult men of this generation do not find it strange when Bob Costas confesses that he placed a Mantle baseball card in his wallet, nor http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture University of Nebraska Press

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nine vol. 12. 2 who got how many hits and when--and the history of ballplayers and managers as tourists and national actors. In crisp and often dramatic prose, Elfers gives readers interesting and at times amusing stories of famous Hall of Famers who took their game overseas. He also provides analysts of a more academic bent a coherent and balanced account of the ways business practices and a changing international climate helped to restructure the national game in the early twentieth century. Some may now reinterpret this material with an eye to the historical literature on U.S. cultural imperialism and other relevant topics not fully engaged here, and others will uncover unused non­English language sources that document local reactions to the White Sox and Giants. All will find Elfers's work an indispensable basis for rethinking this pivotal historical era. Tony Castro. Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son. Washington dc: Brassey's, 2002. 343 pp. Cloth, $26.95. Ron Briley To baby boomer generation baseball fans, such as writer Tony Castro, Mickey Mantle remains the quintessential hero. Adult men of this generation do not find it strange when Bob Costas confesses that he placed a Mantle baseball card in his wallet, nor

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NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Mar 5, 2004

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