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Mickey Mantle: The Commerce Comet


No. of pages 40

Published: 2017

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Great for age 4-8 years

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The ONLY nonfiction picture book about New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest baseball players of all time.From award-winning author Jonah Winter and #1New York Timesbestselling artist C. F. Payne comes this extraordinary picture-book biography that traces Mickey Mantles unparalleled baseball career. He could run from home plate to first base in 2.9 seconds. He could hit a ball 540 feetthe longest home run in major league history. He was the greatest switch hitter ever to play the game. And he did it all despite broken bones, pulled muscles, strains, and sprains, from his shoulders to his feet. How did a poor country boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, become one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players of all time? This is the story.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Random House USA Inc .

Jonah Winter is the author of Barack , Dizzy , Diego , and Atheneum's own Sonia Sotomayor , and Roberto Clemente , to name a few. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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