Tony Castro

TONY CASTRO is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son that The New York Times hailed as the best biography ever written about the baseball Hall of Fame legend.

 

His forthcoming book DiMag & Mick, to be published in 2015, is based on interviews with DiMaggio and Mantle, as well as many of the women in their lives and their friends, and previously unreleased recorded conversations.

 

Formerly a staff writer for Sports Illustrated, Castro is nationally recognized as one of the most knowledgeable historians of the New York Yankees during baseball’s Golden Age of mid-20th Century America.

 

Tony developed a personal friendship with Mantle in Mickey's first years after retirement when the two became golf playing partners in Dallas, Texas. Castro detailed their friendship in his latest book, The Prince of South Waco: American Dreams and Great Expectations, a coming of age memoir about growing up in Texas.

 

Tony is also the author of the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America, which Publishers Weekly called “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time.” Chicano Power has been re-issued in a special 40th anniversary edition.

 

Castro was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where he did graduate work on American Studies and comparative literature — studying under Homeric scholar and translator Robert Fitzgerald and Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. He is currently also working on a biography of Ernest Hemingway.

 

For more about Castro, check out his personal website:

 

TonyCastro.com