In the Dec. 16 Turner Report, I wrote about a controversial book scheduled to be published this spring, a so-called "inventive memoir" (otherwise known as fiction" about the life of the baseball superstar from Commerce, Okla., who spent his early pro baseball days playing on fields in Joplin and Carthage.
That book project, which was going to be published by the same woman, Judith Regan, behind the O. J. Simpson book, has been shelved, according to an article in today's New York Daily News:
"We spoke to [author] Peter Golenbock, and we mutually agreed to part ways with this book," Michael Morrison, president of HarperCollins' Harper/Morrow unit, told the Daily News. "We agreed it's probably best for him to sell it elsewhere," Morrison added.
Golenbock plans to market his book to other publishers. Among other highly suspect claims, the book says Mantle had an affair with ex-teammate Joe DiMaggio's wife, actress Marilyn Monroe, and claims that his teammate and later Yankee manager Billy Martin was a rapist.
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