1969 Miracle Mets: The Improbable Story of the World’s Greatest Underdog Team
In the 1977 movie Oh, God!, George Burns, playing the deity, is asked to prove his divinity by performing a miracle. Burns replies, The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
This book is a riveting account of the single most impossible, unbelievable, and wonderful sports story of all timethe 1969 Amazin Mets and their incredible spring, summer, and fall as they went on to capture the World Series. But it does much more than simply recount how the worst sports franchise ascended to greatness in a few short months. The 1969 Miracle Mets is a story of tumultuous times. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and a New York City in disarray, the Mets proved to be a metaphor for a changing America and, in retrospect, the catapult for the eventual comeback of a battered-yet-unbowed metropolis.
One hero of this story is, of course, Tom Seaver. At the age of twenty-four, at the start of what would be a remarkable Major League career, he pitched his team to victory in 1969. Seaver represents the crux of what makes this book so unique, so compelling, such a nostalgic memory of a town, a team, and a time that is no more.
And yet this is not a book about one superstar, but about an entire team that ascended to the heights. Tom Seaver and his teammates come alive in these pages as the final symbols of an innocent age, an age when the greatest icons in American cultureNew York sports heroesmounted the stage in awesome splendor, before Watergate, before free agency, before the
mercenaries took over.|In the 1977 movie Oh, God!, George Burns, playing the deity, is asked to prove his divinity by performing a miracle. Burns replies, The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
This book is a riveting account of the single most impossible, unbelievable, and wonderful sports story of all timethe 1969 Amazin Mets and their incredible spring, summer, and fall as they went on to capture the World Series. But it does much more than simply recount how the worst sports franchise ascended to greatness in a few short months.The 1969 Miracle Mets is a story of tumultuous times. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and a New York City in disarray, the Mets proved to be a metaphor for a changing America and, in retrospect, the catapult for the eventual comeback of a battered-yet-unbowed metropolis.
One hero of this story is, of course, Tom Seaver. At the age of twenty-four, at the start of what would be a remarkable Major League career, he pitched his team to victory in 1969. Seaver represents the crux of what makes this book so unique, so compelling, such a nostalgic memory of a town, a team, and a time that is no more.
And yet this is not a book about one superstar, but about an entire team that ascended to the heights. Tom Seaver and his teammates come alive in these pages as the final symbols of an innocent age, an age when the greatest icons in American cultureNew York sports heroesmounted the stage in awesome splendor, before Watergate, before free agency, before the
mercenaries took over. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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