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Open Road Media
Jimmy Breslin
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
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2012
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Publisher > Open Road Media
Author > Jimmy Breslin
Title > Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Issue > ---
Year > 2012
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ISBN > 9781453245323
Pages > 128
Genre > Nonfiction Sports
Language > English
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Type > Retail
Media > Book
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2012-02
Release > 2026-06-30
Disks > 01*3.7MB
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ble-saga-of-the-new-york-mets-first-year
A hilarious look back at the 1962 Mets and their record as the worst baseball
team in history by the New York Timesbestselling author Newark StarLedger.
Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the
citys 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 leagues detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of
them, making them statistically the worst team in the sports modern history.
Its possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin
Throneberrya first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be Marvelousthe
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,
aweinspiring ineptitudeand held a record that would stand for...
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