Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

A â€œhilariousâ€ look back at the worst baseball team in historyâ€”the 1962 Metsâ€”by the New York Timesâ€“bestselling author (Newark Star-Ledger).
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Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the cityâ€™s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball.
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Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the leagueâ€™s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sportâ€™s modern history. Itâ€™s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberryâ€”a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be â€œMarvelousâ€â€”the Mets lost with swashbuckling panache. In an era when the fun seemed to have gone out of sports, the Mets came to life in a blaze of delightful, awe-inspiring ineptitude. They may have been losers, but a team this awful deserves to be remembered as legends.
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This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authorâ€™s personal collection.
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-02-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-02-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

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