Books by Randy Roberts and Complete Book Reviews

Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith. Basic, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-07970-4
In this provocative history, sports historians Roberts and Smith examine the relationship between two central figures of the 1960s: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. The day after Cassius Clay’s unlikely upset of Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title, he
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A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle
A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith. Basic, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-09442-4
Historians Roberts and Smith (Blood Brothers) detail the defining season of legendary New York Yankee Mickey Mantle: 1956, during which Mantle threatened to break Babe Ruth’s single-season record of 60 home runs. The authors tell the story of Mantle:
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War Fever: Boston
War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith. Basic, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7266-6
Roberts and Smith, history professors at Purdue University and Georgia Tech respectively, portray the lives of three German-American men from Boston during WWI in this well-researched if flimsily connected sports history. The fever of the title...
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