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Baseball maverick : how Sandy Alderson revolutionized baseball and revived the Mets /

"Granted unprecedented access to a working GM over several seasons, bestselling author Steve Kettmann traces Alderson's history and his renewal of the Mets despite a limited budget, through big trades that brought back high-profile prospects to the development of young aces including Matt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kettmann, Steve (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Alderson, Sandy.
Baseball > United States > Management > Biography.
New York Mets (Baseball team)
Oakland Athletics (Baseball team)
Table of Contents:
  • Rounding a corner
  • The Marine shakes up baseball in Oakland. Khe Sanh
  • Poster boy
  • Holy Toledo!
  • Hooked up with Apple
  • Computer helps A's zap Tigers
  • The Google of baseball
  • Earthquake
  • Passing the torch
  • "Come on, Blue!". Alderson's brain trust
  • The Madoff mess
  • Winter meetings 2012
  • Spring training 2013
  • Sweep
  • Patience
  • The best day of the year
  • "Come on, Blue!"
  • Line in the Sandy. Hangin' with Jay-Z
  • The ninety-win challenge
  • Don't think
  • Fizzle
  • "Throw a goddamned fastball!"
  • Hanging by a thread
  • Back to where it all started
  • The future is now
  • Zero hour for the Mets.