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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
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John Feinstein
Pitchers are at the heart of baseball. Each has the potential to make his team a winner or, very quickly, a loser. The pressure is huge. In the end, only those with both the arm and the heart and the ability to manage extraordinary stress will emerge as champions. John Feinstein looks into this complex side of the game through the events of one ...
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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a
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Jeff Pearlman
Baseball's last great wild bunch--the world champion 1986 Mets--is immortalized in this rollicking story of the arrogant, insane, rock-and-roll, party-all-night team.
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A Magic Summer: The Amazin' Story of the 1969 New York Mets
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Stanley Cohen
A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team-Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others-provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans-and all ...
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Shea Good-Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season
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Keith Hernandez, Matthew Silverman
To many New Yorkers who came of age in the 1980s as Mets fans, Keith Hernandez is the Mets. Two decades after his last game in a New York uniform, the first captain in Mets history is still with them, literally. He's spent most of the last decade in the broadcast booth at Shea Stadium watching the rise and fall of the club and, just as he did when ...
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Pride and Pinstripes: The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life's Challenges
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Mel Stottlemyre, John Harper
More than a star pitcher and accomplished coach, Mel Stottlemyre has a history that serves as a behind-the-scenes tour of five decades of baseball. From Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, Stottlemyre connected generations of stars during a remarkable career. In his long-awaited ...
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If at First: A Season with the Mets
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Keith Hernandez
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Sometimes You See It Coming
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Kevin Baker
A baseball story for a new generation traces the heroic abilities of an elusive baseball legend named John Barr and outlines the cruel absurdity of a business peopled by millionaires with high-school mentalities and sportswriters desperate for a quote. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets
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Greg Prince, Gary Cohen (Foreword by)
The New York Mets fan is an Amazin' creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Prince's Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team. Prince, coauthor of the highly regarded blog of the same name, examines ...
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Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year
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Jimmy Breslin, Bill Veeck (Introduction by)
Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year.
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The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets
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Bob Klapisch, John Harper
An uproarious inside look at baseball the way it shouldn't be--but is. With the highest payroll in the majors and some of the most highly touted players in the game in 1992, the New York Mets displayed shameful tantrums and errors on and off the field. Drawing heavily on player quotes, this rollicking book describes the backstabbing skulduggery ...
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Screwball
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Tug McGraw
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From First to Worst: The New York Mets in the 1970s
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Jacob Kanarek
The "Miracle Mets" of 1969 had great hopes and enormous expectations for the coming decade. Unfortunately, they would be forced to watch hopes and dreams slowly fade to despair. "From First to Worst" details the Mets' climb from last place in August of 1973, to falling one game short of World Champions, to their subsequent collapse in 1977. This ...
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Can't anybody here play this game?
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Jimmy Breslin
A vivid history of the Mets, preserving for all time a wonderful look at New York's other team, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Bats
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Davey Johnson
Bats is the autobiography of the man who built the New York Mets into the formidable force they now are. Focusing on the 1985 campaign, it is filled with the thrill of the pennant race including plenty of inside information about the players. In light of the 1986 Championship series, Bats is a "can't miss" bestseller.
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Believeniks!: 2005: The Year We Wrote a Book about the Mets
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Ivan Felt, Harris Conklin
In 2005, Felt and Conklin, lifelong friends and lifelong fans, determined to change the course of their own careers and of baseball history by doing what had never been done: writing their beloved team to a World Championship.
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If at First
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Keith Hernandez, Mike Bryan
In this in-depth revealing book, Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets takes readers onto the field and into the clubhouse to capture all the drama and excitement of the New York Mets' 1985 season. This edition has been updated to include the 1986 pennant race. 16 pages of photographs.
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Pedro, Carlos (and Carlos) and Omar: The Rebirth of the New York Mets
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Adam Rubin, Lyons Press (Creator)
An inside look at the Mets' resurgence thanks to the influx of Latino stars, with an update to report on the team's return to first place in 2006, when they got off to their best start in twenty-one years.
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The Worst Team Money Could Buy
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Bob Klapisch, John Harper
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however. ...
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Pedro, Carlos, and Omar: The Story of a Season in the Big Apple and the Pursuit of Baseball's Top Latino Stars
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Adam Rubin
Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran, have two things in common: They both signed with the Mets (not the Yankees!) and, like Mets General Manager Omar Minaya, they are both Latino. Now, Adam Rubin, New York Mets beat writer for the New York "Daily News," tells the exciting story of their 2005 season.
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Mets by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Amazin' Mets by Uniform Number
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Jon Springer, Matthew Silverman, Howie Rose (Foreword by)
This is the first team history of the New York Mets--or any other team--to be told through a lighthearted analysis of uniform numbers. 75 b&w photographs.
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Tales from the Mets Dugout
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Bruce Markusen
Markusen tells tales about the many fascinating teams of one of the most colorful franchises in Major League Baseball as well as stories about dozens of memorable New York Mets personalities.
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Magic Summer: The '69 Mets
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Stanley Cohen
The chronicle of how the 1969 New York Mets overcame seven years of lovable failures to win the World Series.
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For Mets Fans Only
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Rich Wolfe
Whether you grew up in New York City or live there now, baseball is an integral part of life in the Big Apple. Fans all over the country will appreciate the heart-felt and compelling stories of how the New York Mets have touched and influenced their lives. Stories and accounts are written by fans with a connection to the game and team that ...
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Kiner's Korner: At Bat and on the Air-- My 40 Years in Baseball
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Ralph Kiner, Joe Gergen
Following their spectacular 1986 championship season, Ralph Kiner tells the behind-th-scenes story of the wild 25-year odyssey of the Amazin' Mets. 16 pages of photographs.
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The Mets Fan's Little Book of Wisdom
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Bucky Fox
This title presents anecdotes from the Mets' roller-coaster history, from their basement-dwelling teams on the early '60s, to the Amazin' Mets of 1969, through their World Series run in 1986.
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