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Author. feature writer for the washington post. her new book is terrific. it s a guaranteed best seller. it s the last boy, mickey mantle and the end of america s childhood. what a read. why did you call it what you called it, the last boy ? you know, i have a picture that someone gave me for my 35th birthday. i m not going to tell you how long that was ago, taken by a fabulous photographer. it s mickey and billy and whitey in the dugout at shea stadium in the mid- 70s. mickey s sitting there in pin stripes, gapping at the middle. he s got these graying muttton chops. he s making this goofy jerry lewis kind of face. and billy s, of course, egging him on and laughing. whitey s looking askance. and i looked at that, i looked at the difference between his age chronologically and the way ....
Author. feature writer for the pennsylvania post. her new book is terrific. it s a guaranteed best seller. it s the last boy, mickey mantle and the end of america s childhood. what a read. why did you call it what you called it, the last boy ? you know, i have a picture that someone gave me for my 35th birthday. i m not going to tell you how long that was ago, taken by a fabulous photographer. it s mickey and billy and whitey in the dugout at shea stadium in the mid- 70s. mickey s sitting there in pin stripes, gapping at the middle. he s got these graying muttton chops. he s making this goofy jerry lewis kind of fails. and billy s, of course, egging him on and laughing. whitey s looking askance. and i looked at that, i looked at the difference between his age chronologically and the way he was aping a kid, aping ....