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Tony Castro (writer) Tony Castro (born December 2, 1946) is an American author. His books include Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America, Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, Gehrig and The Babe: The Friendship, the Feud, and The Prince of South Waco: American Dreams and Great Expectations. Early Life Castro was born in Waco, Texas, United States (U.S.) to Antonio Castro and Maria Emma Segovia Castro. His paternal grandfather, Jose Angel Castro, fought with General Francisco “Pancho” Villa’s División del Norte in the Mexican Revolution before emigrating to Texas after his country's civil war. His maternal grandmother, Concepción Rivera Segovia, was heiress to almost 2,000 acres of land just south of the U.S.-Mexican that had been deeded to her fifth great-grandfather in 1767 by the King of Spain. Castro graduated from Bishop Reicher High, a diocesan Catholic prep school, where he won a journalism scholarship to Baylor University. He graduated from Baylor with a bachelor of Arts Degree in 1970. In 1976-77, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University where he studied classical literature under Mexican writer and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and Homeric scholar and translator Robert Fitzerald. Early media work In 1962, while he was a sophomore in high school, Castro got his first professional newspaper job at the twice-weekly Waco Citizen where he reported on high school sports, local politics and in 1964 covered the Beatles appearance in Dallas during their first American tour.

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