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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 3, 2019
This essay, published by American Heritage, is adapted from A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle (Basic Books) co-authored by Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts. The book traces Mantle's ascendance as an icon of the 1950s and baseball's place in American culture.