Strangers in the Bronx

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Strangers in the Bronx is more than a chronicle of a World Series–winning team, it is also a study of heroes: the decline of an all-too mortal American icon and /5(31). Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard is the first book to examine the end of DiMaggio’s career and Mantle’s shaky start as a major league player.

After winning the World Series championship, the players went their separate ways, and the rest is history. Strangers in the Bronx is more than a chronicle of a pennant-winning team, it is also a study of heroes: the decline of an all-too mortal American icon and the emergence of the newest sensation in sport/5(32).

Strangers in the Bronx book. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generat /5. Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard by Andrew O'Toole book review.

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Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. Strangers in the Bronx book Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sports culture had Brand: Triumph Books.

Strangers in the Bronx is more than a chronicle of a pennant-winning team, it is also a study of heroes: the decline of an all-too mortal American icon and the emergence of the newest sensation in sport. Review: Strangers by Anita BrooknerHilary Mantel enjoys a well-crafted story of loneliness that harks back to an unhappy childhood Seventy-two when the book begins, Paul is a.

method" in writing The Stranger, in the first half of the book in particular: the short, precise sentences; the depiction of a character ostensibly without consciousness; and, in places, the "tough guy" tone.

Hemingway, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Cain, and others had pointed the way. There is some irony then in the fact that for forty years. Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. In Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, baseball had two such figures.

And for one fleeting moment, one dramatic season, their eras overlapped. O'Toole brings to life, offering an insightful take on one of the most important moments in Yankee and baseball history.

On Saturday, the Bronx Book Festival, a literary event organized by Ms. Fennell, will take place in that same neighborhood, at Fordham all-day event will bring writers, illustrators and. Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard.

by Andrew O’Toole. Triumph Pages, $ There has been a lot written about the “changing of the guard” when it came to the Commerce Comet replacing the Yankee Clipper, but nothing that approaches the overall depth of this bittersweet tale by Andrew O’Toole.

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Strangers in the Bronx | Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. In Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sports culture had two such figures.

Undoubtedly, DiMaggio and Mantle are two of the most revered names in baseball literature. STRANGERS IN THE BRONX by Andrew O’Toole ($, pages) could have been even better with much tighter editing, an index and an inclusion of a Harvey Frommer Yankee book or two in.

Get this from a library. Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the changing of the Yankee guard. [Andrew O'Toole] -- "Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation.

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