Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The renowned Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a nationwide hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but general public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer’s status in his latter years. In The Last Son, Leavy plumbs the depths of the complicated athlete, using copious first-hand analysis as well as her very own memories, showing why The Mick remains the most much loved and misunderstood Yankee slugger ever.