Download or read book A Hero All His Life written by Merlyn Mantle and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wife and sons of baseball great Mickey Mantle tell the story of their private lives with a husband and father who was always in the public eye and almost never home, discussing their battles with alcoholism and sharing details of the closeness they were finally able to attain in Mickey's final years.