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Peter Golenbock, "The Mickey Mantle Novel" author: Mr. Media Interview, Par
2008-01-05 06:36:00 (Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: It?s kind of that side of sports heroes that we sort of think is there, but we don?t usually hear about it or talk about it.PETER GOLENBOCK: Without a doubt, and the other thing about Mickey, of course, is that when he retired at the end of the ?68 season, he was lost. The man was just lost, and so he lived until 1995, so from ?68 until ?95, he had to get up every morning and try to figure out, what in the world am I going to do today? He was not a very happy man. He was a fearful guy. I mean, he had a very tough childhood. His father was not a particularly nice guy or kind guy. Mickey?s father was very, very tough on him, especially even when he was a child. Baseball became something of a job, and even if Mickey didn?t want to spend the afternoon playing catch or hitting a ball, he really had no choice. This was something? And so Mickey never, ever, felt that anything he ever did was good enough, and that was a large part of what really bot...
By: Mr. Media
Peter Golenbock, "7: The Mickey Mantle Novel" author: Mr. Media Interview,
2008-01-05 06:34:00 (Return to Part 1)(Return to Part 2)BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: Let?s change gears a little bit. You have written so many books about the Yankees. Do you have a favorite among them?PETER GOLENBOCK: You don?t have favorite books. It?s like children. I mean, each one is a tremendous experience while you are doing it. Dynasty was my first book, was my very, very first book, and that was the one book I did before the age of computers, so from ?72 to ?73, I spent a year in Yankee Stadium with the Yankees researching their archive, a 100,000 newspaper articles. When I got finished with the thing, it occurred to me that I didn?t know any more about the Yankees then than I did when I started. It was an amazing revelation. So I went back to the guy who signed up the book at Prentice-Hall, and I said to him, ?Look, I need to go visit these guys. Will you front me more money to do it?? They originally gave me $2,500, and then he gave me another $2,500. He did it two more times as I kept going and ...
By: Mr. Media
Baseball History on Christmas Day
2007-12-25 13:22:00 Baseball History on Christmas Day
By: Mop Up Duty
Shoutout for Joe Torre
2007-10-09 07:21:00 So, the Yanks lost tonight - the third straight year they didn't go on to the World Series after making it into the playoffs, and everyone's disappointed, and George said the other day that if the Yankees didn't progress then Joe Torre might be finished as Yankee skipper...But let me say the obvious: Third straight year that the Yankees didn't make it to the series after getting into the playoffs? For any other manager, that would be cause for the owner offering a hefty long term contract. How many other teams make it in the playoffs year after year - in the case of the Yankees and Joe Torre, 12 years, to be exact, with World Series wins and all.But that's not the most important reason that Joe Torre deserves credit and continuation, in my book.In the end, baseball is just a game. What lasting value it has comes from the humanity and lessons its players give to the world.And when it comes to that, no one holds a candle to Joe Torre. He has brought to baseball a whole new l...
By: Infinite Regress
The Bronx Is Burning, Billy Martin, & the Misleading ?Paternal Abandonment
2007-08-27 19:02:00 I’ve often criticized what one might call the “paternal abandonment script”–the standard assumption that if a father doesn’t remain in his children’s lives after a divorce or separation, it’s because he “abandoned the family” and/or chose to remove himself from his children’s lives. One example is my blog entry Dick Allen & the Misleading ‘Paternal ... |
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