The Mick And Brat

Mickey Mantle is The Mick: the beautiful Yankee golden boy whose swing every kid copies and whose life looks perfect from the stands. Billy Martin is The Brat: smaller, meaner, sharper, the street fighter who learns that if you can't be the most talented, you can be the toughest and smartest. Together they claw out of hardscrabble dirt into Yankee pinstripes and spend the rest of their lives like it's all borrowed time-closing down clubs, draining bottles, tearing through marriages, and treating loyalty like a religion and fidelity like a joke.THE MICK AND THE BRAT is a dark, unsentimental baseball novel about friendship, addiction, and the cost of loving all the wrong things. Two men who can hit anything life throws at them, except the one pitch nobody beats: themselves.