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I really do believe I would be way up at the top of everything if I hadn't been injured. When I was healthy, I really believe I was the best of anyone I ever saw play.Mickey Mantle, reflecting on his careerMickey Mantle is one of baseball's all-time greats. Playing for the New York Yankees for his entire professional career, Mantle was named to the All-Star team for 11 consecutive seasons, won three MVP awards, and was a seven-time World Series champion. He quickly became an icon who achieved hero status even while playing through injuries for most of his career.In Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Tony Castro makes the impassioned argument that Mickey Mantle truly was the greatest ballplayer of all time. Acclaimed by the New York Times as the definitive biographer of baseball's fabled number 7, Castro shares many of his personal conversations with Mantle, demystifying the legend and revealing intimate, never-before-published details from Mantle's personal life. In addition, Castro offers illuminating new insights into Mantle's extraordinary career, including the head-turning conclusion based on the evolution of analytics that the beloved Yankee switch-hitting slugger may ultimately win acclaim as having fulfilled the weighty expectation once placed on him: being even greater than Babe Ruth. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with ex-teammates, friends, and family, Castro masterfully blends Mantle's public and private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this complex, misunderstood national hero.

The first thing that the reader may notice about this memoir is its short chapters-on average, about 700 words. That is because, originally, each chapter was a blog post, and was submitted through the authors blog, one chapter (or post) at a time. As you might imagine, the author's concentration in writing this memoir was on what he could remember about his life all through the years. From his earliest memories, through high school, the military, college, his painting business, his marriage and divorce, his prayer ministry, his writing endeavors, to his retirement years, many interesting events and situations are recorded, of which every reader may identify with and enjoy. Though the focus of the writing is on the remembrance of events as they happened, the reader will also notice a theme running through the pages: that the author's life was under God's watchful eye, keeping him safe from evil and constantly providing him comfort, peace and hope. If you should decide to read this memoir of Stephen's life, it is his hope and prayer that some part or parts of it will be an encouragement to you, and that God will reach out and bless you just as Stephen has been blessed by God.

Gentleman Gerry chronicles boxing legend Gerry Cooney's career, his challenges and triumphs as a trauma survivor, and his journey to sustained recovery from alcoholism. It provides a detailed account of the difficulties this Golden Gloves champion faced both as a child and adult, offering a compelling exploration of an inspirational life.

Macho Time will be the first definitive biography of Hector Camacho Sr., who lived a life as fast as his fists flew in the ring. Camacho's son, Hector Camacho Jr., also a professional boxer, has worked closely with author Christian Giudice to give him unprecedented access and insight into this complex man, who was tragically murdered in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2012.

In 1973, Scottish mountaineering legend Hamish MacInnes alongside climbing notoriety Don Whillans, Mo Anthoine and Joe Brown trekked through rainforest and swamp to climb the great prow of Mount Roraima. Climb to the Lost World is MacInnes' story of their climb.

In this book,The Baseball Gods are Real: Volume 3 - The Religion of Baseball, I chronicle the origins, history and religiosity of baseball.

Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak, Broad Peak, and the first to reach the summit of K2. First published in 1986 before her death, and with an additional chapter by Peter Gillman documenting her final expedition to K2, this story is as awe inspiring today as it ever was.

Once infected with the mushing virus, there is no cure -- there is only the trail Don Bowers learned the truth of these words as he lived his dream of running Alaska's grueling 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. With no mushing experience and little money, but with a spirit of adventure and support from friends, he started from scratch to put together a team. Over the next two years, he discovered that becoming a serious musher is not to be undertaken by the faint of heart, or by those who cannot learn to laugh at themselves and keep going in the face of daunting difficulties and dangers. By the time he eventually pulled under the famous burled arch at the end of Front Street in Nome, his perspective on life had been changed forever by his dogs and by the staggering scope and intensity of the Iditarod. This is Everyman's Iditarod, a tribute to the dedicated dreamers and their dogs who run to Nome in back of the pack with no hope of prize money or glory. This is truly the rest of the story"e; of the Last Great Race on Earth."e;

Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. For fifty years had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their expedition is recounted in Shipton's Nanda Devi - one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.

Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. It is essential reading for anyone who loves nature, mountains, climbing, adventure or simply the joy of discovering unknown places.

That Untravelled World is the autobiography of Eric Shipton, one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. First published in 1969, it is the story of an adventurer who, inspired by Edward Whymper, travelled to feral landscapes across the globe, and has in turn inspired generations of climbers and mountaineers.

In No Place to Fall, Victor Saunder's follow up to Elusive Summits, he confirms his place at the forefront of alpine-style climbing with expeditions in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon.

Elusive Summits is the Boardman Tasker Prize winning book by Victor Saunders, which celebrates the exhilaration that comes with alpine-style climbing through describing four expeditions to the Karakoram.

Ed Rice chronicles the tragically short life of Olympic and Boston Marathon runner Andrew Sockalexis--who died at the age of 27 from what was likely tuberculosi--focusing on his running and the races that earned him recognition from the sports community and made him revered at home.

Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over.300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing, tough-talking hustler, he had a fiery disposition on the field which led many sportswriters, teammates and opposing players to refer to him as a throwback to baseball's early days - an Eddie Stanky or Enos Slaughter type who would challenge anyone to a fight.