Author : Jimmy Breslin
Release : 2012-02-14
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)

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Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? write by Jimmy Breslin. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “hilarious” look back at the worst baseball team in history—the 1962 Mets—by the New York Times–bestselling author (Newark Star-Ledger). Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball. Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the league’s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sport’s modern history. It’s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberry—a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be “Marvelous”—the Mets lost with swashbuckling panache. In an era when the fun seemed to have gone out of sports, the Mets came to life in a blaze of delightful, awe-inspiring ineptitude. They may have been losers, but a team this awful deserves to be remembered as legends. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.