#405 Author and Baseball Historian Tony Castro

Tony Castro is a distinguished Harvard and Baylor University-educated historian, Napoleonic scholar and author of several books, including the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power, which Publishers Weekly praised as “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time.” His latest book is Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, published by Rowman & LIttlefield. It completes his Mickey Mantle Trilogy that includes Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son and DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers.