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Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the
improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year, as Bill Veeck
notes in his Introduction, "preserving for all time a remarkable
tale of ineptitude, mediocrity, and abject failure." Indeed the
1962 Mets were the worst major league baseball team ever to take
the field. (The title of the book is a quote from Casey Stengel,
their manager at the time.) Breslin casts the Mets, who lost 120
games out of a possible 162 that year, as a lovable bunch of
losers. And, he argues, they were good for baseball, coming as a
welcome antidote to "the era of the businessman in sports...as dry
and agonizing a time as you would want to see." Although they were
written forty years ago, many of Breslin's comments will strike a
chord with today's sports fan, fed up with the growing
commercialism of the games. Against this trend Breslin sets the
exploits of "Marvelous" Marv Throneberry, Stengel, and the rest of
the hapless Mets. "Wonderful."—Charles Salzberg, New York Times.
"A touching, enjoyable, and interesting addition to anybody's
sports reading list."—Patrick Conway
Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and
one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His
classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed
Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the
history of baseball and tales of players and owners, including some
of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature.
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