Bad Guys Won
by Jeff Pearlman
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Author: Jeff PearlmanEdition: Paperback
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Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
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Book Review: A good read for any baseball fan
Summary: 4 Stars
In 1970 I was 8 years old and really couldn't care less about baseball. On april 22nd of that year my Aunt Marge and Uncle Nick invited me to go with them with their two daughters to see my first Mets game at Shea Stadium. Sure, we were in the Upper Deck, four miles away from the action, but as Tom Seaver struck out the last ten Padres he faced and finished with a major leage tying record 19 strikeouts for the game, I was hooked. Even though I was an awful baseball player at the age of 8 and 9 (I never even got on base without either being walked or hit by a pitch until I was ten, and then it was either by an error or a fielder's choice) by eleven years old I finally was able to take advantage of some god-given talent, and by 12 years old was on the little league All-Star team. I was a shortstop by this time, but my passion was pitching. The numbers on uniforms didn't go up to 41 at the time, so I wore #5 (4 + 1) to show my allegience to Seaver. I would try to scrape my right knee on the clay with every pitch, and the moleskin on my right spike would have to be replaced every few games from dragging through the dirt. I was a Seaver wannabe through and through, and even into my high-school playing days, when Seaver was ultimately dealt to the Reds in 1977, my love of Seaver and his perfect delivery and pitching motion made me continue to emulate Seaver, although I remained a Mets Fan.
In 1973 my heart was broken by the A's, as they beat the team I so desperately was rooting for. Even though I had a great time watching them dismantle what I felt was a superior Reds team to get to the World Series (the pummeling of Bud Harrelson by Pete Rose not withstanding), I had never felt the joy of winning the ultimate series, and felt the void had to be filled, especially living amongst many Yankee fans in southwest Connecticut.
Finally, in 1986, I realized my ultimate goal of experiencing a World Series Championship was going to be accomplished. The fact that my college roomate (a Sox fan from Enfield, CT) called me when Boston was one out away from clinching the series made it that much more special.
The book brought back a lot of special memories for me. I'm not sure I had to be reminded about all of the drugs that were ingested during that time by the Mets (and their fans), but all in all it was a good book and took me only a few hours to read.
My mother-in-law, perhaps one of the gretaest Mets fans ever (since 1962)and perhapps the best Lenny Dykstra fan to grace the planet (she denies he ever hit the juice)gave the book to me for Christmas after she read it first, and also enjoyed it immensely.
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