this book reminds me of the good old days of baseball where nothing mattered but baseball, and you had stars like Mantle, Maris, DiMaggio, Aaron, Killebrew, Kaline, Drysdale, Koufax, Berra, and Whitey Ford to name a few.
the book, The Mick, talks about the entire baseball life of Mickey Charles Mantle, to hero and baseball legend.

the book begins with how Mickey's dad brought him up around baseball and how his father taught him to become a switch hitter. Mickey talks about girls, booze, and other fun stuff he did while playing ball for Joplin and the Yankees.

when you read this book, you almost feel like you're there with Mickey when this stuff is happening. you're there when he hits a 536 foot homer, or when he busted his knee in the World Series. you know how he feels when he says he hated to play against Dodger great, Sandy Koufax, and you know what his emotions were like once he retired from the game that he says was the only thing he knew how to do.

you learn about Casey Stengel and how he really cared for and pushed for Mickey to be a great player.

great book on the baseball life of Mickey Mantle. i recommened this book highly to anyone who likes baseball or to anyone who wants to read about the baseball life of The Mick.

At first, I just got this book because I had to do a book report, and since I like baseball, I thought that this book would be interesting. Although I neither liked the Yankees or really knew much about Mantle, this book had a good amount of information about his life before and with the Yankees, and turned out to be pretty good. Everything was from his point of view, of course, but that didn't make the book any less interesting. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about baseball or just Mantle and the Yankees in particular.

The Mick was a very good book. It showed a great insight of the life of Mickey Mantle, one of the best baseball players ever to live. He told about his views on life and baseball.

This book is really cool you have to read it for yourself. This book talks about some of the best baseball players of all-time. For example:Joe Dimaggio,Willie Mays,and Cookie LaVetto. I recomend this to all baseball fans.

ALEX KARRAS DOES A VERY GOOD JOB OF DESCRIBING HIS LIFE AND CAREER IN THE NFL. IT IS SAD, FUNNY, INTERESTING, AND NEVER DULL. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS. HIS ACTING CAREER ON TV, MOVIES, COMMERCIALS AND MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL MAKE HIM QUITE THE STORY TELLER. RECOMMENDED FOR ALL FOOTBALL FANS.

While The Gettin's Good is the only book, at least the only one I found, about the ill-fated World Football League (1974-75). It traces the building of the WFL on a weak foundation, focusing mainly on the New York/Charlotte Stars franchise

While it delivers on one level, showing why the WFL was doomed from the start, it fails on another. The league's first, and only, complete season is glossed over as if the author decided he had already written too much about the creation of the league and the early interworking of the Stars and it was time to wrap up the book.

Despite its minor shortcoming, it's a must for WFL buffs ... if you can find it.