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Baseball Journalist, and Story of That Fantastic Season PlaPlayy Ball?Ball? Recent Ebook Titles about The Great American Pastime Here's the Catch : a 108 stitches : Loose Memoir of the Miracle Threads, Ripping Mets and More Yarns, and the by Ron Swoboda Darndest Characters In honor of the 50th anniversary of from My Time in the the Mets' amazing 1969 World Series Game win, their former right fielder, who by Ron Darling made the greatest catch in team The former Mets pitcher, history to win the pennant, tells the baseball journalist, and story of that fantastic season. broadcaster offers baseball anecdotes that interweave his experiences with such baseball greats After the Miracle : the as Dwight Gooden, Mickey Mantle, and Wade Boggs Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets Doc, Donnie, the Kid, by Art Shamsky and Billy Brawl : how A must-have for every Mets fan, the 1985 Mets and an insider's account of the 1969 New York Mets, a consistently Yankees Fought for last-place team that turned it all New York's Baseball around in just one season, Soul features reminiscences from by Chris Donnelly outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of "Focuses on the 1985 New York Fame pitcher Tom Seaver and City baseball season, a season other teammates. that remains one of the most interesting and exciting in New They Said It Couldn't York's baseball history" Be Done : the '69 Mets, New York City, and the Full Count : the Most Astounding Education of a Pitcher Season in Baseball by David Cone History A Mets and Yankees All-Star pitcher shares lessons from his by Wayne R. Coffey seventeen-year career, detailing "The story of the 1969 Miracle his passion, frustrations, and Mets, unlikely world champions strategies, and offering stories against the backdrop of the from the memorable teams he space race and Vietnam, on the played on 50th anniversary of their Cinderella season In 1962, the New York Mets spent their first eary in existence racking up the worst record in baseball history. Things scarcely got any better for the ensuing six years--they were baseball's laughingstock, but somehow lovable in their ineptitude, building a fiercely loyal fan base. And then came 1969, a year that brought the lunar landing, Woodstock, nonstop antiwar protests,Lindenhurst and Memorial Library the most tumultuous and fractious New York City mayoral race in memory--along with the most1 Lee Avenue improbable season in the annals of Major LeagueLindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 Baseball. It concluded on an invigorating autumnhttps://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/ afternoon in Queens, whena Minnesota farm boy named Jerry Koosman beat the Baltimore Orioles for the second time in five games, making the Mets champions of the baseball world. It wasn't merely an upset but an unprecedented, uplifting achievement for the ages. From the ashes ofthose early scorched- earth seasons, Gil Hodges, a beloved former Brooklyn Dodger, put together a 25-man whole that was vastly more formidable than the sum of its parts. Beyond the top-notch pitching staff headlined by Tom Seaver, Koosman, and Gary Gentry, and the hitting prowess of Cleon Jones, the Mets were mostly comprised of untested kids and lightly regarded veterans. Everywhere you looked on this team, there was a man with a compelling backstory, from Koosman, who never played high school baseball and grew up throwing in a hayloft in subzero temperatures with his brother Orville, to third baseman Ed Charles, an African-American poet with a deep racial conscience whose arrival in the big leagues was delayed almost a decade because of the color of hisskin. In the tradition of The Boys of Winter, his classic bestseller about the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, Wayne Coffey tells the story of the '69 Mets as it has never been told before--against the backdrop of the space race, Stonewall, and Vietnam, set in an ever-changing New York City. With dogged reporting and a storyteller's eye for detail, Coffey finds the beating heart fo a baseball family. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Mets' remarkable transformation from worst to best, They Said It Couldn't Be Done is a spellbinding, feel-good narrative about an improbable triumph by the ultimate underdog" PlaPlayy Ball?Ball? Recent Ebook Titles about The Great American Pastime Chumps to Champs : How Inside the Empire : the the Worst Teams in True Power behind the Yankees History Led to the New York Yankees 90's Dynasty by Bob Klapisch by Bill Pennington A behind-the-scenes, unstinting "The untold story of the time when portrait of how deals and the New York Yankees were a decisions are made within the laughingstock--and how out of that Yankees clubhouse features abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of controversial revelations about the greatest in all of sports. The New York Yankees iconic figures, the 2018 season have won 27 world championships and 40 American and the franchise's considerable League pennants, both world records. They have 26 wealth. members in the Hall of Fame.Their pinstripe swag is a symbol of "making it" worn across the globe. Yet Almost Yankees : the some 25 years ago, from 1989 to 1992, the Yankees Summer of '81 and the were a pitiful team at the bottom of the standings, Greatest Baseball sitting on a 14-year World Series drought and a 35 percent drop in attendance. To make the statistics Team You've Never worse, their mercurial, bombastic owner was banned Heard of from baseball. But out of these ashes emerged the by J. David Herman modern Yankees dynasty, a juggernaut built on the "Almost Yankees is the story of sly, a brilliant mix of personalities, talent, and the New York Yankees' then ambition. In Chumps to Champs, Pennington reveals Triple-A farm club, the 1981 a grand tale of revival. Readers encounter larger than Columbus Clippers, and its life characters like George Steinbrenner and players performing in the unexplored figures like Buck Showalter, three-time shadow of one of the sport's manager of the year, Don Mattingly, and the crafty most famous teams and infamous owners" architect of it all--general manager, Gene Michael, who assembled the team's future stars--Rivera, Jeter, My Dad, Yogi : a Williams, O'Neill, and Pettitte. Drawing on unique Memoir of Family and access, Pennington tells a wild and raucous tale" Baseball Mission 27 : a New by Dale Berra A candid and nostalgic family Boss, a New Ballpark, memoir by Yogi Berra's son and One Last Ring for provides a unique perspective the Yankees' Core Four on his legendary Baseball Hall by Mark Feinsand of Fame dad. "This book is about the Yankees' 2009 World Series championship campaign" They Said It Couldn'tLindenhurst Memorial Library Be Done : the '69 Mets, New York City, and1 Lee the Avenue Lindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 Most Astounding https://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/ Season in Baseball History by Wayne R. Coffey "The story of the 1969 Miracle Mets, unlikely world champions against the backdrop of the space race and Vietnam, on the 50th anniversary of their Cinderella season In 1962, the New York Mets spent their first eary in existence racking up the worst record in baseball history. Things scarcely got any better for the ensuing six years--they were baseball's laughingstock, but somehow lovable in their ineptitude, building a fiercely loyal fan base. And then came 1969, a year that brought the lunar landing, Woodstock, nonstop antiwar protests, and the most tumultuous and fractious New York City mayoral race in memory--along with the most improbable season in the annals of Major League Baseball. It concluded on an invigorating autumn afternoon in Queens, whena Minnesota farm boy named Jerry Koosman beat the Baltimore Orioles for the second time in five games, making the Mets champions of the baseball world. It wasn't merely an upset but an unprecedented, uplifting achievement for the ages. From the ashes ofthose early scorched- earth seasons, Gil Hodges, a beloved former Brooklyn Dodger, put together a 25-man whole that was vastly more formidable than the sum of its parts. Beyond the top-notch pitching staff headlined by Tom Seaver, Koosman, and Gary Gentry, and the hitting prowess of Cleon Jones, the Mets were mostly comprised of untested kids and lightly regarded veterans. Everywhere you looked on this team, there was a man with a compelling backstory, from Koosman, who never played high school baseball and grew up throwing in a hayloft in subzero temperatures with his brother Orville, to third baseman Ed Charles, an African-American poet with a deep racial conscience whose arrival in the big leagues was delayed almost a decade because of the color of hisskin. In the tradition of The Boys of Winter, his classic bestseller about the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, Wayne Coffey tells the story of the '69 Mets as it has never been told before--against the backdrop of the space race, Stonewall, and Vietnam, set in an ever-changing New York City. With dogged reporting and a storyteller's eye for detail, Coffey finds the beating heart fo a baseball family. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Mets' remarkable transformation from worst to best, They Said It Couldn't Be Done is a spellbinding, feel-good narrative about an improbable triumph by the ultimate underdog" PlaPlayy Ball?Ball? Recent Ebook Titles about The Great American Pastime The Cup of Coffee Ballpark : Baseball in Club: 11 Players and the American City Their Brush with by Paul Goldberger Baseball History "An exhilarating, splendidly by Jacob Kornhauser illustrated, entirely new look at "Most baseball players will never the history of baseball: told reach the major leagues.
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