Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to
1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets
and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming
of the city and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After
the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out
in 1990. The team finished in last place, enduring one of their
worst seasons ever. Their best player, Don Mattingly, was suffering
from a debilitating back injury. Manager after manager had been
fired. The clubhouse was a miserable place to be, with moody,
egocentric players making life difficult for up-and-coming talent.
It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the
twenty-first century. Then Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was
banished from baseball. Without their manic, meddling owner, the
Yankees fell into the hands of Gene Michael. Setting out to rebuild
the franchise, Michael made shrewd trades and free agent signings,
and he allowed the team's prospects to develop in the Minor Leagues
before getting to the Bronx. Meanwhile, the Mets, beloved for their
intensity and hard-partying ways in the 1980s, became everything
that had driven fans away from the Yankees. They made bad trades
and questionable signings, fired managers seemingly every year, and
were a powder keg of never-ending controversy. The Mets bottomed
out in 1993, perhaps their worst season ever, when they not only
lost 103 games but officially lost the heart of the city to the
Yankees. But by 1996, despite their record, the Mets were already
making moves that would return them to relevance and set them on a
path to the ultimate showdown with the Yankees. Road to Nowhere
tells the story of how two teams that had swapped roles in the
1980s swapped them right back in the early 1990s. While playing
through several difficult seasons, both teams were making moves
that would return them to prominence in just a few years.
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