Steven Travers

1969 Miracle Mets (eBook, ePUB)

The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 tells the tale of the single most impossible, unbelievable, and wonderful sports story of all timeof the 1969 "Amazin' Mets" and their incredible spring, summer, and fall. But it does much more than simply recount how the worst sports franchise ever ascended to greatness in a few short months. The 1969 Miracle Mets is the story of tumultuous times: the 1960s. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the New York 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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461746737
• Artikelnr.: 42712194

Autorenporträt

Steven Travers is a USC graduate, a former professional baseball player, and the author of many books, including the best-selling Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, nominated for a Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 2002.