everyone said yogi berra and all of the players on the team said he's going to be the next to maggio. the next babe ruth, the next lou gehrig's. everyone expected him to perform immediately like garrick, dimaggio, bruce. they were great, but mickey would show signs of brilliance, greatness, but he would get injured, he would not hit in the clutch. bullying him, he was solitary, mad, uncommunicative. then he has a breakout season where he wins the triple crown and becomes the mickey mantle of met -- of legend. and that is where you end the book. extent, i think what i've done with biographies is .ore group biography and that fully interesting people out when they are interesting. times when jim and tammy are the most interesting people in the room but other times when they are not. of biographytage is that it allows you to weave a hey narrative -- to weave a narrative that's interesting. but it's not just to tell the story of someone's life, it's to make larger points. to draw out a story that transcends them, even if they are at the center of it for a large part of the time. one of th