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1969 Miracle Mets
The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team
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In the 1977 movie Oh, God!, George Burns, playing the deity, is asked to prove his divinity by performing a miracle. Burns replies, “The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.”
This book tells the tale of the single most impossible, unbelievable, and wonderful sports story of all time—of the 1969 “Amazin’ Mets” and their incredible spring, summer, and fall. But it does much more than simply recount how the worst sports franchise ever ascended to greatness in a few short months. The 1969 Miracle Mets is the story of tumultuous times: the 1960s. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the New York Mets proved to be a metaphor for a changing America and, in retrospect, the catapult for the eventual comeback of a battered-yet-unbowed Metropolis. Tom Seaver and his teammates come alive in these pages as the final symbols of an innocent age, an age when the greatest icons in American culture—New York sports heroes—mounted the stage in awesome splendor, before Watergate, before free agency, before the mercenaries took over.
Lyons Press; March 2006
208 pages; ISBN 9781461746737
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Title: 1969 Miracle Mets
Author: Steven Travers; Bud Harrelson
208 pages; ISBN 9781461746737
Read online, or download in secure EPUB or secure PDF format
Title: 1969 Miracle Mets
Author: Steven Travers; Bud Harrelson
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