Amazin': The Miraculous History of New York's Most Beloved Baseball Team by Peter Golenbock  (2)
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"The New York Mets Encyclopedia" provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball’s most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, including the exciting 1999 squad, New York’s National League Mets have written some of the most exciting and colorful pages in major league history. This is the team that captured the hearts of New Yorkers and fans everywhere with its often-laughable antics under colorful and celebrated manager Casey Stengel, then, only a half a dozen years later, climbed to baseball’s pinnacle under gifted, yet tragic, manager Gil Hodges. This colorful volume combines detailed and highly readable narrative history with archival photographs, rich statistical data, and intimate portraits of the team’s most memorable personalities.
About the Author
Peter C. Bjarkman has authored more than 35 books on baseball and basketball history and specializes in big-league team histories, Latin American baseball, and NCAA basketball. His "Baseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game" received the 1994 MacMillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, and his recent "Hoopla: A Century of College Basketball" has been acclaimed as the definitive history of the college cage sport. He is the author of "The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia" (Sports Publishing Inc., 1999). Bjarkman also writes regular columns on baseball in Cuba for several national and international baseball publications.
"The New York Mets Encyclopedia" provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball’s most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, including the exciting 1999 squad, New York’s National League Mets have written some of the most exciting and colorful pages in major league history. This is the team that captured the hearts of New Yorkers and fans everywhere with its often-laughable antics under colorful and celebrated manager Casey Stengel, then, only a half a dozen years later, climbed to baseball’s pinnacle under gifted, yet tragic, manager Gil Hodges. This colorful volume combines detailed and highly readable narrative history with archival photographs, rich statistical data, and intimate portraits of the team’s most memorable personalities.
About the Author
Peter C. Bjarkman has authored more than 35 books on baseball and basketball history and specializes in big-league team histories, Latin American baseball, and NCAA basketball. His "Baseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game" received the 1994 MacMillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, and his recent "Hoopla: A Century of College Basketball" has been acclaimed as the definitive history of the college cage sport. He is the author of "The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia" (Sports Publishing Inc., 1999). Bjarkman also writes regular columns on baseball in Cuba for several national and international baseball publications.
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