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A Great Teammate.


A Great Teammate

Randall Swearingen

Sports Publishing L.L.C.

804 North Neil St., Suite 100, Champaign, IL 61820

1596701943, $16.95 www.SportsPublishingLLC.com 1-877-424-2665

The late Mickey Mantle Noun 1. Mickey Mantle - United States baseball player (1931-1997)
Mickey Charles Mantle, Mantle
 (who passed away in 1995 after a lifetime of noted achievements) is one of the most respected, admired, and accomplished men to ever play the game of professional baseball. The story of his life and successes both on and off the field are the subject of Randall Swearingen's "A Great Teammate: The Legend of Mickey Mantle". Swearingen writes about Mickey Mantle with a special enthusiasm and expertise that arises from personally having met him a year before his death, becoming an avid AVID Cardiology A clinical trial–Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators that compared the effect of implantable defibrillators vs the best medical therapy–antiarrhythmics for survivors of MI or those with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia  collector of Mickey Mantle memorabilia mem·o·ra·bil·i·a  
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1. Objects valued for their connection with historical events, culture, or entertainment: posters, publicity photographs, and other movie memorabilia.

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, creating a website dedicated to Mickey Mantle (www.mickeymantle.com), and himself playing baseball from his youth down to the present day where, at the age of 53, Swearingen still plays in the Houston Men's Senior League. Enhanced with a comprehensive appendices ap·pen·di·ces  
n.
A plural of appendix.
 providing Mickey Mantle's lifetime baseball statistics Statistics are very important to baseball, perhaps as much as they are for cricket, and more than almost any other sport. Since the flow of baseball has natural breaks to it, the game lends itself to easy record keeping and statistics. , "A Great Teammate" is a 'must read' for anyone who has ever thrilled to a game with Mantle playing, or who have themselves ever stood at the plate with bat in hand.
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