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Jimmy Breslin & rsquo;s nostalgic, rollicking look back at the worst baseball team in history Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city & rsquo;s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball. Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the league & rsquo;s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sport & rsquo;s modern history. It & rsquo;s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberry & mdash;a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be & ldquo;Marvelous & rdquo; & mdash;the Mets lost with swashbuckling panache. In an era when the fun seemed to have gone out of sports, the Mets came to life in a blaze of delightful, awe-inspiring ineptitude. They may have been losers, but a team this awful deserves to be remembered as legends. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author & rsquo;s personal collection. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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New York Mets (Baseball team) -- History.
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New York Mets (Baseball team) |
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Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Baseball fans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Electronic books. |
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9781453245323 : $19.99 |
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1453245324 : $19.99 |
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