The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin' Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World - Couverture souple

Silverman, Matthew; Heaphy, Leslie; Goldfarb, Irv; Vorperian, John; Hoyt, Edward; Krieger, Tara; Simon, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 197015909X ISBN 13 : 9781970159097

Editeur : Society for American Baseball Research, 2021

Synopsis

Celebrate the 1969 Miracle Mets in this new, updated SABR edition of The Miracle Has Landed. Seven seasons after the Mets debuted with the most losses in modern baseball history, the franchise was still seen as a laughingstock, with 100-to-1 odds to win the World Series when 1969 began. The first year of divisional play started out as the Cubs’ year, while most onlookers figured the Mets would be happy if they could play .500 ball. Tom Seaver’s “Imperfect Game” against Chicago showed that the Mets could play with the big boys, but the Cubs still had a double-digit lead on the Mets in the middle of August. The Cubs stumbled, plagued by worn-out players, black cats, and bad luck, and magnificent Mets pitching turned the tide.The Miracle Has Landed celebrates the lovable Mets like no other book, complete with photos and artifacts of the time. A project of the Society for American Baseball Research, this volume gathers the collective efforts of more than thirty SABR members and features profiles of every player, coach, broadcaster, and significant front-office member connected to that great Mets squad. Included are biographies of the recently departed "Franchise" player, Tom Seaver, and Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, beloved manager Gil Hodges, the talented outfield of Cleon Jones, Tommie Agee, and Ron Swoboda, drill sergeant backstop Jerry Grote, crucial mid-season acquisition Donn Clendenon, scrappy shortstop Bud Harrelson, and a pitching staff that went far deeper than just Seaver and Ryan. More than fifty years later the Miracle Mets are still revered, the first world champion expansion team and the club that stole New York’s heart.The book features a Foreword by Jerry Koosman, and has been expanded throughout for this new edition.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

MATTHEW SILVERMAN has written several books on the Mets, including 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, Mets Essential, Shea Goodbye (with Keith Hernandez), and Mets by the Numbers (with Jon Springer) and served as a co-editor on the Maple Street Press Mets Annual. He has also been the managing editor for Total Baseball, Total Football, The ESPN Football Encyclopedia, and as associate editor for The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. He lives in High Falls, New York.

Ken Samelson is a freelance book editor and writer who grew up in the Bronx the son of a Giants fan mom and Yankees fan dad. He was a regular contributor to New York Mets Inside Pitch for 11 years and also served as an associate producer for Mets Extra on WFAN Radio from 1987 to 1990. The co-author of Amazing Mets Trivia, The Great All-Time Baseball Record Book, The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia Quiz Book, and The Baseball Encyclopedia (Macmillan), he lives in Larchmont, New York. His two children, Spencer and Lena, are not surprisingly both huge Mets fans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Society for American Baseball Research
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 197015909X
• ISBN 13: 9781970159097
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
• Éditeur: Silverman Matthew, Samelson Ken
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg