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Maris & Mantle

Two Yankees, Baseball Immortality, and the Age of Camelot

By: Tony Castro

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Maris & Mantle

Two Yankees, Baseball Immortality, and the Age of Camelot

By: Tony Castro

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris are forever intertwined in baseball history thanks to the unforgettable 1961 season, when the two Yankee icons spurred each other to new heights in pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record. History has largely overlooked the bond between the two men not as titans of their sport, but as people. Guided by Tony Castro, bestselling author and foremost chronicler of Mantle, readers will journey into history, from the Yankees' blockbuster trade for Maris, whose acquisition re-ignited Mantle's career after a horrendous 1959 season, to the heroics of 1961 and far beyond. This dual biography is a thoroughly researched, emotionally gripping portrait that brings Yankees lore alive.

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Triumph Books

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164125601X

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9781641256018

Mantle

The Best There Ever Was

By: Tony Castro

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Mantle

The Best There Ever Was

By: Tony Castro

Mantle’s life story has been told many times, but it’s never received as loving a treatment as this one." Booklist, Starred Review Mickey Mantle is one of baseball’s all-time greats. Playing for the New York Yankees for his entire professional career, Mantle was named to the All-Star team for 11 consecutive seasons, won three MVP awards, and was a seven-time World Series champion. He quickly became an icon who achieved hero status even while playing through injuries for most of his career. In Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro makes the impassioned argument that Mickey Mantle truly was the greatest ballplayer of all time. Acclaimed by the New York Times as the definitive biographer of baseball’s fabled number 7, Castro shares many of his personal conversations with Mantle, demystifying the legend and revealing intimate, never-before-published details from Mantle’s personal life. In addition, Castro offers illuminating new insights into Mantle’s extraordinary career, including the head-turning conclusion based on the evolution of analytics that the beloved Yankee switch-hitting slugger may ultimately win acclaim as having fulfilled the weighty expectation once placed on him: being even greater than Babe Ruth. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with ex-teammates, friends, and family, Castro masterfully blends Mantle’s public and private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this complex, misunderstood national hero.

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279

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538122227

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9781538122228

DiMag & Mick

Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers

By: Tony Castro

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DiMag & Mick

Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers

By: Tony Castro

DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America celebrating its recent triumph over Nazism and ever-curious about the new age of color television, rocket ships, and technology. Tony Castro shows DiMag and Mick as fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and reveals the rite of passage of two men who would go down in baseball immortality – DiMaggio as he reluctantly prepares to leave the spotlight of adoration and hero-worship for glitzy world of Marilyn’s exploding Hollywood celebrity, and Mantle in his awkward attempt to leave his country roots of Dust Bowl Oklahoma for the big city exposure and expectations of greatness being placed on him. Yankee legend and glory holds a special magic all its own, and Castro examines the heart and soul of that mystique, especially the bond of the players themselves and how that came to breed and spread the perception that there was any animosity between DiMaggio and Mantle – two polarizing personalities who drove many teammates away from one and galvanized their friendship with the other.

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289

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1630761257

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9781630761257

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England

By: Tony Hunt

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Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England

By: Tony Hunt

Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses provide the key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. Teaching and Learning Latin is destined to become an essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture.

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382

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859913392

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9780859913393

Mickey Mantle

America's Prodigal Son

By: Tony Castro

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Mickey Mantle

America's Prodigal Son

By: Tony Castro

More than any other athlete, Mickey Mantle was the American hero whose life personified the great expectations and unfulfilled dreams of the twentieth century. Hailed by Casey Stengel as the next Ruth and successor to DiMaggio, Mantle would become the first true sports icon of the television age. In Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, former Sports Illustrated writer Tony Castro recounts a story of fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and a youth's rite of passage. He interviewed over 250 of Mantle's friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking partners, producing an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time.

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531

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597979945

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9781597979948

Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England

Introduction and Texts

By: Tony Hunt

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Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England

Introduction and Texts

By: Tony Hunt

Fills a big gap. It is concerned with recipe collections, perhaps the least studied of all medical documents, and includes - chants, charms and prayers, as well as herbal remedies for a variety of ailments.' 'Popular Medicinesucceeds in two ways: the quality of its philological scholarship confirms the growing academic respectability of an interest in medical history, and the abundance of primary material made available for the first time in print offers a way of reconciling opposing views on medieval English medicine. It forces medical historians to think hard about the diagnostic categories they use, and sanctions a pluralist approach to an equally diverse system of medicine.'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The first study of Anglo-Norman medical prescriptions to appear in print. Six major collections, comprising over 1000 receipts, are analysed and edited. A historical introduction provides the richest and most up-to-date account of popular medicine in the period 1100-1300 yet published. Full botanical glossaries are provided. TONY HUNTis a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.

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488

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0859912906

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9780859912907

Confirmed in the Joy of the Spirit: A Confirmation Journal for Teens Inspired by Saintly Heroes

By: Tony Picher,Paula Rieder

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Confirmed in the Joy of the Spirit: A Confirmation Journal for Teens Inspired by Saintly Heroes

By: Tony Picher,Paula Rieder

You Aren't Alone On Your Journey To The Sacrament Of Confirmation. Here are stories of nineteen fascinating people to inspire you along the way. People like: Teilhard, the gifted scientist and priest who was forbidden to write or teach about evolution... Edith, who was born into a Jewish family, became a Catholic nun, and was sent to a German concentration camp... Henri, who spent a lifetime searching for the truth and found it in caring for one person..., Then there's Jorge, a man most of us know better as Pope Francis. Plus others like Cesar Chavez, Sr. Thea Bowman, St. Thomas More, St. Teresa of Calcutta, and many more. Their lives can show you how the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit will give you heroic courage and strength. You're also invited to think about all that's happening around you and to jot down your ideas. All of this can help you prepare for the incredible grace you'll receive at confirmation-your share of God's own life within you. Then, confirmed in the Spirit, you'll be ready to live your own life of faithful discipleship. Because that's what true heroism is. Book jacket.

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Twenty-Third Publications

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1627853448

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9781627853446

The Real Tony Montana

Life in the Chicago Outfit

By: Tony Montana,Nathan Nelson,Blake Whiteside

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The Real Tony Montana

Life in the Chicago Outfit

By: Tony Montana,Nathan Nelson,Blake Whiteside

A Memoir of the Real Tony Montana

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1936759195

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9781936759194

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Maris & Mantle

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Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England

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Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England

Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England

Confirmed in the Joy of the Spirit: A Confirmation Journal for Teens Inspired by Saintly Heroes

Confirmed in the Joy of the Spirit: A Confirmation Journal for Teens Inspired by Saintly Heroes

The Real Tony Montana

The Real Tony Montana

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