Good news for those looking for a little light Opening Day reading. Rather than confuse yourself with some statistical meanderings (and a laff-tastic ’07 recap from everyone’s fave displaced Redbird) you can instead curl up with Peter Golenbock’s recently shelved chronicle of Mickey Mantle fucking Marilyn Monroe and calling Billy Martin a rapist. From Tuesday’s New York Times.
“7: The Mickey Mantle Novel, Peter Golenbock™s occasionally racy account of the life of Mickey Mantle, which was canceled last month by its publisher, HarperCollins, was revived yesterday by Lyons Press.
HarperCollins canceled œ7 on the day it also shuttered Regan Books, the imprint under which the book was to be published.
œIt™s one of those books that a lot of people will love, but some won™t, Golenbock said yesterday. He said that Lyons did not edit the book or alter the sex scenes in it, one of which involves Mantle and Marilyn Monroe.
œThe only change was from ˜Regan™ to ˜Lyons,™ he said.
Gene Brissie, associate publisher of Lyons, said he and other editors read œ7 soon after HarperCollins canceled it. œMaking the decision to publish it and let readers make up their own mind was easy, said Brissie, whose uncle is the former major league pitcher Lou Brissie. œI think all the negative publicity came from people who haven™t read it.
A correction-you say that Gene Brissie’s Uncle is Lou Brissie, who played/pitched in MLB for Philadelphia & Cleveland. That is incorrect, Lou Brissie was never an Uncle, he was the only child.
Please make this correction, thank you!
Jennifer Brissie (his daughter)