{"604575":{"#nid":"604575","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Remembering a Slugger Named Mickey Mantle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, was mentioned in \u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Times\u003C\/em\u003E, April 1, article \u0026ldquo;Remembering a Slugger Named Mickey Mantle.\u0026rdquo; The School of History and Sociology is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA joyful fringe benefit of baseball fandom is memories of games past. And reading this book took me back to my first major league games the summer of 1956, as a young soldier stationed in Baltimore. A slugger named Mickey Mantle, of the New York Yankees, was terrorizing American League pitchers while delighting fans nationwide who felt they were witnessing the emergence of \u0026ldquo;the new Babe Ruth.\u0026rdquo; One evening at the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, an Oriole pitcher served up a fast ball to the muscular Mr. Mantle\u0026rsquo;s liking. CRACK! The ball vanished over the left field wall and seemed destined to come to earth somewhere near the city limits of Bethesda. I exaggerate, of course, but such is the privilege of a fan who worships the national pastime. And anyone who loves the sport will find hours of undiluted joy in one of the best books on baseball \u0026mdash; or any other sport \u0026mdash; that I have encountered. In addition to being astute fans, the authors are also professors \u0026mdash; Randy Roberts at Purdue University, and Johnny Smith at Georgia Tech. Their intensive research is backed by brisk writing that lets this reader sense he was sitting in a prime third-base-line seat.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/apr\/1\/book-review-a-season-in-the-sun-by-randy-roberts-a\/\u0022\u003EThe Washington Times\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2018-04-02 15:20:08","changed_gmt":"2018-04-02 15:20:08","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"postsdocs","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/apr\/1\/book-review-a-season-in-the-sun-by-randy-roberts-a\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4124","name":"baseball"},{"id":"177608","name":"major league"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"},{"id":"167076","name":"summer"},{"id":"120121","name":"players"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}