Mickey Mantle
Regan Books, apparently undeterred by the storm of controversy which greeted its plan to publish OJs book "If I Did It," is planning to publish a book about Yankee superstar Mickey Mantle in the Spring of 2007. The book, by Peter Golenbock, will not be a biography however. It is titled "The Mickey Mantle Novel" and is described by its author as an "inventive memoir." The book tells Mickey's story in the first person. The reason that Golenbeck, who was a great friend of Billy Martin and has written numerous successful sports books, did it as a novel was so that he could use the various Mantle stories related to him by ex-teammates and managers. One of the stories that the book relates is that Mickey had an affair with Marilyn Monroe while she was still married to the other Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio.