Accounts of record-breaking attempts by fifteen athletes: Joe DiMaggio, Toni Sailer, Wilt Chamberlain, Johnny Unitas, Roger Bannister, Don Schollander, Jimmy Clark, Jimmy Brown, Bobby Jones, Sandy Koufax, Donald Campbell, Gordie Howe, Maureen Connolly, George Billick, Roger Maris.
Profiles the life and athletic achievements of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle, and includes insights into his eighteen-year career in baseball, his personal life, and his life after retiring from baseball.
The stories of the "foot soldiers" of baseball: the scouts, coaches, minor league managers, front office personnel, groundskeepers, pitchers and others.
