MARIS & MANTLE

is the No.1 new book release in America, chronicling Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle's historic chase of the most cherished record in all sports... Babe Ruth's legendary 60 home runs in a single season. Order your personally signed books by American historian and New York Times bestselling author Tony Castro

MARIS & MANTLE

THE M&M BOYS: A PROFILE IN CIVILITY is how presidential historian Michael Beschloss described them more than half a century later, harkening back to a golden age in baseball and America that Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle helped define every bit as much as John F. Kennedy.


MARIS & MANTLE: Two Yankees, Immortality and the Age of Camelot is the first, epic and true story of the Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle friendship 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.

America's Prodigal Son

What The New York Times praised as the definitive biography of baseball and pop culture icon Mickey Mantle by the acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer who knew The Mick personally, played golf with him often in their beloved Dallas and has authored a celebrated Mickey Mantle Quadrilogy that includes DiMag & Mick, Mantle: The Best That Ever Was, and the newly released Maris & Mantle.

DiMag & Mick

In what Rolling Stone called "an epic The Natural meets The Rookie buddy drama," DiMag & Mick pulls back the curtain on the real, untold story of America's pop cultural legends in 1951 as an aging, ailing Joltin' Joe prepares to leave the superstar stage of New York City while The Mick struggles stepping into the hero's cleats at Yankee Stadium -- so raise the curtain on Broadway! 

The Best There Ever Was

AMERICA'S ORIGINAL HERO, THE MICK IS THE GREATEST * From Tony Castro, the New York Times bestselling author, comes this brilliant re-evaluation of Mickey Mantle -- of whom even Joe DiMaggio begrudgingly told the author: "to say there was anyone better in the game, to say there was anyone better than Mantle is what we Italians would call 'un sacco di stronzate,' a load of crap."

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THE M&M BOYS

A PROFILE IN CIVILITY is how presidential historian Michael Beschloss described them more than half a century later, harkening back to a golden age in baseball and America that Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle helped define every bit as much as John F. Kennedy.

Nobody writes better about Mickey Mantle than Tony Castro. Nobody.

Peter Golenbock

Tony Castro paints Mickey Mantle with the pinstripe magic of García Márquez phantasmagoria and realism...

Tom Wolfe

Brilliant... a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time..

Publishers Weekly
Sports Illustrated writers Rick Reilly and Tony Castro, 1985

Author Tony Castro

A native Texan educated at Baylor and Harvard, Tony Castro is an American historian and bestselling author of eight books. They include the landmark 1974 civil rights history Chicano Power, the 2016 literary biography Looking for Hemingway, and the Mickey Mantle biographical quadrilogy. He was a national correspondent for the Washington Post, a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. Tony and his wife Renee LaSalle live in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. To read a Q&A with the author about the writing of Maris & Mantle, click here.