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Book Synopsis The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969 by : William J. Ryczek
Download or read book The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969 written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the New York Mets from the franchise's inauspicious beginnings--the 1962 team, led by Casey Stengel and made up of players like Rod Kanehl and Jay Hook, lost 120 games--through the miraculous championship season of 1969. Based on interviews with more than one hundred former players and extensive research by one of the more highly regarded baseball historians writing today, the book covers the era in unprecedented detail. Any Met fan from the 1960s will find some familiar stories along with some they've probably never read before. Presented in an easy-to-read, narrative style, this book traces the rapid ascent of the Mets and explores the reasons for their early failure and dramatic success.
Book Synopsis The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969 by : William J. Ryczek
Download or read book The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969 written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the New York Mets from the franchise's inauspicious beginnings--the 1962 team, led by Casey Stengel and made up of players like Rod Kanehl and Jay Hook, lost 120 games--through the miraculous championship season of 1969. Based on interviews with more than one hundred former players and extensive research by one of the more highly regarded baseball historians writing today, the book covers the era in unprecedented detail. Any Met fan from the 1960s will find some familiar stories along with some they've probably never read before. Presented in an easy-to-read, narrative style, this book traces the rapid ascent of the Mets and explores the reasons for their early failure and dramatic success.
Download or read book Cellar Dwellers written by Jonathan Weeks and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113. The Cleveland Spiders topped this record when they lost an astonishing 134 games in 1899. Over 100 years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood apart as the only team in baseball history to lose 60 games before July in a season. These stories and more are told in Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History, a colorful tribute to the sport’s least successful clubs. Cellar Dwellers spans three centuries of professional baseball, recounting the seasons of those teams whose misadventures have largely been forgotten over time. Chapters not only cover the stories of the luckless teams, they also include reams of statistics and detailed player profiles of those who helped the clubs—and those who helped them fail. In addition to the Alleghenys, Spiders, and Tigers, the cellar dwellers of baseball include: 1904 and 1909 Washington Senators 1916 Philadelphia Athletics 1928 and 1941 Philadelphia Phillies 1932 Boston Red Sox 1935 Boston Braves 1939 St. Louis Browns 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 New York Mets While many books revel in the glories of teams whose exploits have become legendary, the stories found in this volume offer an engaging alternative to the thrill of victory. Embellished with comical and amusing anecdotes alongside historical perspectives, Cellar Dwellers will entertain baseball fans and fascinate those who love baseball history.
Book Synopsis The New York Mets in Popular Culture by : David Krell
Download or read book The New York Mets in Popular Culture written by David Krell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing fresh perspectives to the team that has brought joy, triumph and even a miracle to New York City, this collection of new essays examines portrayals of the Mets in film, television, advertising and other media. Contributors cover little-known aspects of Mets history that even die-hard fans may not know. Topics include the popularity of Rheingold's advertising in the 1950s and 1960s, Bob Murphy's broadcasting career before joining the Mets' announcing team in 1962, Mr. Met's rivalry with the Phillie Phanatic, Dave Kingman's icon status, the pitching staff's unsung performance after the 1969 World Series victory, and Joan Payson's world-renowned art collection and philanthropy.
Book Synopsis So Many Ways to Lose by : Devin Gordon
Download or read book So Many Ways to Lose written by Devin Gordon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a weird, wonderful, and essential book about both America and its pastime. It’s about a place as vast as New York City and as intimate as the human heart. Fred Exley meets Richard Ben Cramer—a funny, wild, heartfelt, and keenly observed portrait of yearning itself.”—Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Cost of These Dreams “Mr. Gordon’s ability to explain the Sisyphean plight of all Mets fans is truly remarkable. Bravo!”—Ron Darling, New York Times bestselling author of Game 7, 1986 The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the worst, no team in sports has ever done it better than the Mets. In So Many Ways to Lose, author and lifelong Mets fan Devin Gordon sifts through the detritus of Queens for a baseball history like no other. Remember the time the Mets lost an All-Star after Yoenis Céspedes got charged by a wild boar? Or the time they blew a six-run ninth-inning lead at the peak of a pennant race? Or the time they fired their manager before he ever managed a game? Sure you do. It was only two years ago, and it was all in the same season. The Mets have an unrivaled gift for getting it backward, doing the impossible, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, and then snatching defeat right back again. And yet, just ask any Mets fan: Amazing and/or miraculous postseason runs are as much a part of our team's identity as losing 120 games in 1962. The DNA of seasons like 1969, the original Miracle Mets, and the 1973 “Ya Gotta Believe” Mets, who went from last place to Game 7 of the World Series in two months, and the powerhouse 1986 Mets, has encoded in us this hapless instinct that a reversal of fortune is always possible. It’s happened before. It’s kind of our thing. And now we've got Steve Cohen's hedge-fund billions to play with! What could go wrong? In this hilarious history of the Mets and love letter to the art of disaster, Devin Gordon presents baseball the way it really is, not in the wistful sepia tones we've come to expect from other sportswriters. Along the way, he explains the difference between being bad and being gifted at losing, and why this distinction holds the key to understanding the true amazin’ magic of the New York Mets.
Book Synopsis The Worst Call Ever! by : Kyle Garlett
Download or read book The Worst Call Ever! written by Kyle Garlett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any sport, whenever an official takes the field, court, ice, ring, or pitch, they do so with a bright red bull's-eye on their backs. For even with their great accuracy and passion for the game, they do make errors—occasionally, great big fat ones—that change the tide of sports history. In The Worst Call Ever, keepers of truth and enlightenment, sportswriters Kyle Garlett and Patrick O'Neal, expose the most injurious mistakes and desecrations, document their lasting damage—which to some wronged parties has evolved into a condition akin to post-traumatic stress disorder—and hopefully become the soothing balm of reconciliation. Each piece details the play in question and examines the players and stakes involved, the scope of the injustice, and the path of change that was often its result. Garlett and O'Neal cover mishaps in all sports, from the four Major Leagues to golf and auto racing to even curling, in this fascinating look at the worst calls in sports history.
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Seventh-Inning Stretch by : Brad Herzog
Download or read book Seventh-Inning Stretch written by Brad Herzog and published by . This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of 150 years of baseball trivia including stats, bloopers and amazing stories.
Download or read book Talkin' Sports written by Pat O'Brien and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed CBS broadcaster Pat O'Brien presents the ultimate guide for talking about sports when you know next to nothing but want everyone else to think you do.
Download or read book Amazing written by Joseph Durso and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MVPs written by John Marino and published by MetroBooks (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade-by-decade look at those great players who have won the award, as well as the essential statistics of each player.
Download or read book New York Mets written by James R. Rothaus and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the baseball team which was created in New York in 1962 under the leadership of manager Casey Stengel after he left the Yankees.
Download or read book Casey Stengel written by Norman MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Baseball written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive bibliography of baseball literature available, updating and expanding "Anton Grobani's Guide to the Literature of Baseball" (1975). The 21,000 citations are arranged by subject classifications. There are sections on the World Series, baseball cards, business aspects, the minor leagues, each of the teams, and a biographical section covering those connected with the game. Annotations are provided for many entries. There is an author index, title index, and information on obtaining difficult to locate material, including addresses. Based on research at the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, N.Y., this work by a professional bibliographer will be the cornerstone of baseball research for the next decade.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of College Basketball by : Mike Douchant
Download or read book Encyclopedia of College Basketball written by Mike Douchant and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American college basketball is extensively covered in this sports encyclopedia.
