The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best
by Jeff Pearlman
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Author: Jeff PearlmanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
ISBN: 0060507322
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Book Review: The story behind the team that won the extraordinary 1986 World Series
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the story about how the New York Mets went from the laughing stock of baseball with average crowds of 9700 to a team of stars, crowds of 35,000 and victory in the 1986 World Series - and then how it all fell apart.
Although you will need a basic understanding of the rules of baseball to follow the on-field action, this is not just for the baseball fans. Jeff Pearlman has a clear, journalistic style that captures the energy and drama of the 1986 Mets baseball team - the triumphs and the disasters, the fighting, gambling, beer drinking, drug-taking, womanising and the baseball.
By the time it gets to chapter 19, the scene is set for "the greatest managerial screwup in baseball history", and, in the most unlikely of circumstances, the crushing of the Boston Red Sox' dream of breaking the Curse of the Bambino.
Overall this book fizzes along at great pace and captures the human stories behind one of baseball's most remembered World Series. A great read.
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