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The M & M Boys

By: Lara Reznik
Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
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A tender tale of coming-of-age meets baseball heroes. Who wouldn't want to be in that kid's cleats when two of sports' greatest legends move in next door?

In the summer of 1961, a Little League player’s joy of making the all-star team evaporates when his father, too busy with a girlfriend, misses his triumphant opening game, and his mother spirals into a bed-ridden depression. Then, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle move next door as they battle to break Babe Ruth's home run record.

Based on historical facts, The M & M Boys explores the parallel lives of an embittered Maris and a self-destructive Mantle who live together incognito in a remote Queens apartment. Maris, a misplaced Midwesterner, gets booed by the Yankee fans who prefer Mantle, and the press pursue him mercilessly. Mantle, on the other hand, basks in New York fans approval, but a series of injuries destroy his hope of winning the competition. Marshall's friendship unearths childhood memories for both men. What all three M & M boys have in common is a good lesson in how to play the game of life, on and off the field.

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Several well-woven threads keep up the interest in this tale of famous sports heroes and a young boy with a rat-bag of a father. The author treads a fine line between explaining baseball and letting the games tell their own story with the result that knowing nothing about the game proves no impediment to enjoying a rousing story, well told. What could easily be taken as corny sentimentality at times somehow fits the early 60s setting - this really is how people acted and expressed themselves in the clean-cut post-war period.

Engaging, well-paced coming of age story.

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