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Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Curveball Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cousins Mike and Kate investigate the ghost of a black cat haunting the New York Mets ballpark during a baseball game between the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Veteran sportswriter Bill Madden writes the definitive biography of a baseball and New York sports legend, Tom Seaver, voted into the Hall of Fame by the highest percentage vote ever at the time and still the most popular player in Mets history"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A four-color celebration of the New York Mets' iconic World Series championship, with oral history-style text throughout and a new foreword by Jimmy Kimmel. October 2021 will mark the 35th anniversary of the 86 Mets' World Series win. ESPN will be airing a multi-part 30 for 30 documentary series on the subject, which will also be produced by ESPN Films, Jimmy Kimmel, Cousin Sal Iacono, and Major League Baseball and directed by Nick Davis. The show...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The boys of summer of the 1969 'Miracle Mets,' this book brings together members of that team, including the author, and Mets' star player, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, as they reminisce about what made that team great"--
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In October 1969, the New York Mets stunned the sports world by defeating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles in a memorable World Series. Their five-game triumph capped off a true Cinderella season, when the woebegone National League franchise rose from laughingstock to popular champions. The histories of both the Mets and Orioles are traced, along with their paths to the climactic '69 Series. A batter-by-batter recap of all five games gives a...
10) 108 stitches: loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect Americas game to the men who played it. In 108 Stitches , Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together a collection of wild, wise, and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime. Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might have been a signature moment in his career, and reflects on the ways professional athletes must sometimes shoulder a personal disappointment as their teams find a way...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the 1969 Miracle Mets, unlikely world champions against the backdrop of the space race and Vietnam, on the 50th anniversary of their Cinderella season In 1962, the New York Mets spent their first year in existence racking up the worst record in baseball history. Things scarcely got any better for the ensuing six years--they were baseball's laughingstock, but somehow lovable in their ineptitude, building a fiercely loyal fan base. And...
13) So many ways to lose: the amazin' true story of the New York Mets, the best worst team in sports
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the worst, no team in sports has ever done it better than the Mets. In So Many Ways to Lose, author and lifelong Mets fan Devin Gordon sifts through the detritus of Queens for a baseball history like no other. Remember the time the Mets lost an All-Star after he got charged by a wild boar? Or the time they blew a six-run ninth-inning lead at the peak...
14) New York Mets
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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