The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, by Jane Leavy. HarperCollins, $27.99, 480 pp. Jane Leavy's engrossing, if somewhat redundant, new book, "The Last Boy," is a fresh, ...

Mickey Mantle's secrets don't didn’t stop at his womanizing and boozing. A new biography of the Yankees great reveals that the deeply troubled slugger was a homophobe whose character was branded by an ...

When I was born in 1957, my older brother urged my parents not to name his baby brother Patrick (after our maternal great-grandfather) but rather Michael. That way, he could nickname me "Mickey," in ...

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball ...

Some biographers study their subject through microfilm and chatty college roommates. Others have their protagonist pass out drunk in their lap. In her new book, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End ...