Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453245323

<DIV><b>Jimmy Breslin&rsquo;s nostalgic, rollicking look back at the worst baseball team in history</b></div><BR><DIV>Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city&rsquo;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.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the league&rsquo;s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sport&rsquo;s modern history. It&rsquo;s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberry&mdash;a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be &ldquo;Marvelous&rdquo;&mdash;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.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>