The M&M Boys
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A tender tale of coming-of-age meets baseball heroes. Who wouldnt want to be in that kids cleats when two of sports greatest legends move in next door? What all three M&M Boys have in common is a good lesson in how to play the game of life, on and off the field. When giving up isnt an option, they learn what it takes to become a winner.In the summer of 1961 a Little League players joy of making the All-Star team evaporates when his father, too busy with a girlfriend, misses his triumphant opening game, and his mother spirals into a bed-ridden depression. Then, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle move next door as they battle to break Babe Ruths home run record. The three find solace in each others triumphs, frustrations, celebrations and disappointments. Based on historical facts, The M&M Boys explores the parallel lives of an embittered Maris and a self-destructive Mantle who live together incognito in a remote Queens apartment. Maris, a misplaced Midwesterner, gets booed by the Yankee fans who prefer Mantle, and the press pursue him mercilessly. Mantle, on the other hand, basks in New York fans approval, but a series of injuries destroy his hope of winning the competition. Marshalls friendship unearths childhood memories for both men. EDITORIAL REVIEWS. . .You find yourself sucker punched by a closing sequence that tear-jerkingly fulfills the wishes of every kid who has ever had a hero, played a sport, had a crush or fought with a parent. Kirkus ReviewLong Island author Lara Reznik hits it out of the park with her ode to baseball, growing up, and the game of life in M&M Boys, a fictional take on living next door to two of the greatest sluggers who ever picked up a bat.Baseball fanatic Marshall Elliott, a tween about to enter junior high school, has lots of tsuris, including making sure not to let his Little League team and his dad down in the clutch, his parents crumbling marriage, and a first kiss. But his biggest problem arises when his
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