Fantastic biography of arguably the most iconic baseball player of the 1950s and early 60s. Leavy's story structure seems unconventional at first, introducing different sections of the book with excerpts from a 1983 article she wrote on Mantle in her early days as a sports reporter. She focuses o...
The main qualms that led me to three stars instead of higher is the organization of the book. It jumped around way too much. Am I too traditional that I like a simple beginning-to-end-of-life biography? From chapter-to-chapter I had to double-check what year or even decade I was in. Not a huge de...
A friend insisted that I read Jane Leavy's biography of Sandy Koufax. I agreed to, vaguely hoping, because I have my own long list of books waiting to be read, that he would forget about it. He didn't and even bought a copy and mailed it to me. So, had no choice. I remembered Koufax as part of th...