Product Description: Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer's reputation in his latter years...read more

Draws on more than four hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and opponents to present a portrait of the distinguished baseball pitcher.

Product Description: Troubles begin for sports reporter A. B. Berkowitz when she is assigned to cover the Washington Senators, who are having a lousy season. When A. B. points out the team's ineptitude, the players refuse to talk to her, except to attempt to gross her out as often as possible...read more

Rookie sportswriter A. B. Berkowitz, who has always dreamed of being a Yankee, travels on the road with the lame Washington Senators, keeping both her boyfriend Michael, and her catcher friend, Rump, at arm's length. By the author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.