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Nevertheless, Gould treats Mantle's alcoholism as a serious part of his life which escaped public attention. "Mickey the myth has had a different status from Mickey the man," Gould says...
...Mantle teetered for years on the edge of a serious drinking problem, and his legendary late nights were not a mere innocent exuberance of youth," says Gould...
...Gould says the Yankee legend's public didn't want to acknowledge his problems because the nature of the sport was so different at the time. "Sports biography was strictly cardboard heroism. Mantle's near alcoholism was seen as high spirits," he says...
...Mantle was a player in an era when they represented different ideals," Gould says, "Mantle put his heart and his life into baseball before the era of great material reward...
...baseball heroes of today? "Don Mattingly is probably the one player who has the potential to become a player like Mantle," Gould says. "Their combination of skills is very rare...