Best Mets
Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York's Most Agonizingly Amazin' Team
Published on 16. June 2014
224 pages
978-1-63076-091-5 (ISBN)
Description
As the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team's ups and downs. Chapters recount the best and worst teams; the greatest players; the most thrilling wins and most excruciating losses; the most memorable and forgettable teams in franchise history; and even a guide to appreciating the Mets, including tips on spring training as well as the best sports bars to see the Mets on TV without having to fight for the remote. Sidebars relating Mets lore (i.e., Jerry Seinfeld's obsession with Keith Hernandez), colorful Mets characters (both players and fans alike), and stats on the best and worst of all things Mets further add to this celebration of the first fifty years of New York's most Amazin' and frustrating sports franchise.
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Best Mets
Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York's Most Agonizingly Amazin' Team
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Matthew Silverman is the author of over a half dozen books, including New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History, 100 Things Mets Fans Should Knowand Do Before They Die, and Shea Goodbye with Keith Hernandez. He lives in High Falls, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fifty Never Felt So Young
- Look Who's Number One
- Down Time
- Goodenough
- Encore Falls Flat
- Bobby V. for Victory
- Down, Down, Down, and Up Again
- Those Season-Ending, Mind-Bending, ?Never-Ending Blues
- Chapter 1: Best Mets Players
- The Best Fifty Mets
- Chapter 2: Best Mets Teams
- Top-Five Teams Profile
- The Rest of the Best: Honorable Mention
- The Best of the Worst
- The Rest of the Worst: Dishonorable Mention
- Chapter 3: Best Mets Games
- Top-Ten Games, Postseason
- Most Heartbreaking Mets Losses, Postseason
- Top Ten Games, Regular Season
- Most Heartbreaking Mets Losses, Regular Season
- Chapter 4: The All-Star Break
- Best Mets All-Star Starters
- Truly All-Star Performances
- All-Star Managers, Recaps
- The All-Star Shaft
- Chapter 5: Best Mets Who Call the Shots
- Best Mets Managers
- Best Mets General Managers
- Best Trades
- Worst Trades
- Best Mets Coaches
- Chapter 6: Best Mets Activities
- Of Banner Days and Giveaways
- Mr. Met Dash
- Go to a Mets Road Game
- Minor Mets
- Cyber Mets
- Best Mets Bars
- Spring Training
- Mets Hall of Fame and Museum
- Appendix
- The Places Called Home
