My concluding review of baseball books by the late Joseph Durso explores his hydra-headed look at the heart and soul of the 1950s Yankee dynasty, slugger Mickey Mantle and ace lefthander Whitey Ford. The city boy from the upper west side of Manhattan, Ford, and Mantle, the country boy from the flatlands of Oklahoma couldn’t have been more different, except, perhaps, for the poverty they shared growing up during the Great Depression. Nevertheless, they forged a deep and enduring friendship that lasted for the rest of their lives. Unlike his books on John J. McGraw and Casey Stengel about which I have already written here, this one features a bit of a palimpsest format.
Whitey and Mickey: An Autobiography of the Yankee Years by Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle and Joseph Durso
