New Mantle 'Inventive Memoir' called 'porn' and 'vile'

But The Mick don't do oral. Hence Marilyn's disappointment.

And you gotta love a writer who calls himself "the best known sports author...in sports." Sweet.

 

I actually had a full interview with him along the same lines. I can't even remember how many factual errors there were, but my favorite was when he described one player, who was in the middle of his senior year, going into Valvano and threatening to transfer -- and Valvano trying to talk him out of it.
I said something like, "Look, I can believe that one of V's players would be stupid enough to think he can transfer in the middle of his senior year, but Valvano was smart enough to know that you can't start your senior year in one place and finish it in another. If he'd been presented with that situation, I'm pretty sure he'd have laughed the guy out of the room." I think this is where the concept of "truthiness" was invented.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/480022p-403822c.html#q1

The publisher gives this description of the novel's premise: "Mickey finds himself in heaven - much to his surprise - and realizes he's carrying a huge burden around with him. He needs to tell someone all the horrible things he did."

So Golenbock does it for Mantle in 286 lurid pages, some of which read like they were ripped from the pages of Penthouse Forum.

Golenbock, who co-wrote Johnny Damon's autobiography and "The Bronx Zoo" with former Yankee reliever Sparky Lyle, makes his reasons for writing this book clear in the prologue, where he imagines himself talking with Mantle.

"Maybe this is the book that will make me rich," he writes. "I'll publish the raunchiest book about you, and my guess is it'll be a smash because no one has ever written a book like this before."

 

The song lyric, "Willie, Mickey and the Duke" takes on a whole new meaning doesn't it?
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I laughed out loud at that

 

golenbock is an entrepreneur and a marketing genius - his baseball stuff was followed by a segue into Nascar - as deft and prescient as if you had loaded up on microsoft in 1990 -

this is the guy who, in "Last Lap". 1998, reported that Davey Allison, before his death, was having a couple of affairs (one with his former wife), and as a preface to his interview with Allison's widow Liz, he wrote:
"Perhaps in self-defense, Liz began a relationship with country and western singing star Joe Diffie. Bobby Allison, for one, has never forgiven her for it, and close observers say that Bobby's antagonism toward Liz in part caused the breakup of hiw own marriage. Friendsd say Bobb had been closer to Clifford than to Davey, and after Clifford died, Judy Allison pleaded with Bobby to embrace Liz for the sake of the grandchildren. To no avail. They say Judy held Bobb's intransigence against her husband, just one of the issues that broke them up."

his billy martin biography, 'wild high and tight' is filled with details of martin's sex life and many affairs and marriages

this 'mantle' thing seems to be a natural evolution - and given golenbock's keen sense of the market it wouldn't surprise me if the public buys it

 

Whenever I see Golenbock on TV, his crossed eyes seem to be spinning in opposite directions.

 

Proving once again that H.L. Mencken was correct

 

I was thinking more of PT Barnum.

(And just because someone mentioned Kitty Kelley, it's worth mentioning that Oprah is her next victim--I hope Random House has no future hopes of getting their authors on her show.)

 

... the batteries in Marilyn's vibrator were running low, so Mickey looked around for a substitute.

"Ah, Phil Linz's harmonica," said The Mick, reaching over to the coffee table. "This should do the trick."

Within moments, Miss Monroe's nether regions were whistling a happier tune, mimicking perfectly the "in and out" cadence of the harmonica clenched in Mickey's teeth.

 

See, that's what I'm talking about.

 

I think it has been established, Ragu, that he is not henry hecht and in fact has mocked henry on here a few times.

the real henry can be a pain in the ass at tmes. this phony henry is just a troll.