"There have been a number of wonderful books about Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, but none are as good as this one. I thought I knew everything there was to know about these two Yankee legends. Boy, was I wrong! Tony Castro has given us a great piece of sports journalism. Many of the intimate details found in DiMag and Mick are simply jaw-dropping."
---- Peter Golenbock, author of Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-1946 and 7: the Mickey Mantle Novel.

"For all their valor on the field, Joe and Mickey were complicated people off it. Tony Castro breaks that down in this revealing book about two American legends and what made them tick."

Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees From Before the Babe to After the Boss

“Tony Castro resurrects ––warts and all––the Hall-of-Fame careers and personal lives of legendary Yankee greats Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. From Mantle’s baptism in New York’s glamorous and seductive nightlife to DiMaggio’s graceful feats on the field and publicly stoic departure from baseball, Castro has produced a remarkable work of journalism."

Dale Tafoya
Author
Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed

The on-field heroics and off-field lives of Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio have been well-documented. (And in Mantle’s case, in another wonderful book by Tony Castro.) In DiMag & Mick, Castro offers a fascinating look at the one season that the two Yankee greats played together, and how their lives intersected in both baseball and their respective social circles. It’s a fresh take on two men who have been written about many, many times before.

Kevin Tankersley, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Public Relations & New Media at Baylor University

For one thrilling summer and fall, two baseball giants -- Joe DiMaggio, a flickering but still brilliant star at the end of a legendary career -- and Mickey Mantle, an ascendant comet in his rookie season -- played together for the New York Yankees, baseball's most storied franchise. In DIMAG & MICK: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers, award-winning journalist Tony Castro takes the reader beyond the field and the locker room and into the lives, loves, and heartbreaks of two of America's greatest sports stars and cultural icons, during a time when America seemed innocent and full of promise. DIMAG & MICK is a must-read for sports fans, for Yankees followers, for students of American history.

Ruben Castaneda, author of S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.

In the genre of biography, it's rare these days to read a brand new story. It seems that every story worth telling has been told many times over. However, with his latest work, Tony Castro gives us a compelling and completely new account of the friendship - as complicated as it is misunderstood - between two of the greatest heroes of the sports world, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. This is not only an informative and vastly researched book, it's also quite moving... and, I dare say, a lot of fun. I enjoyed it immensely.
- J. Randy Taraborrelli
New York Times best-selling author

In DiMag & Mick, Tony Castro offers a revisionist history that turns out to be the real history and has found a fascinating relationship where others had seen no relationship at all. Your knowledge of the Yankees from the DiMaggio through the Mantle years isn’t complete until you’ve read this book.

Allen Barra, author of Mickey and Willie: The Parallel Lives of the Golden Age of Baseball