So many ways to lose : the amazin' true story of the New York Mets, the best worst team in sports /
The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the worst, no team in sports has ever done it better than the Mets. In So Many Ways to Lose, author and lifelong Mets fan Devin Gordon sifts through the detritus of Queens for a baseball history like no ot...
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New York, NY :
Harper,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The original original Met
- Casey at the mic
- M is for VRAM
- The house that a well-connected lawyer built
- Tom Terrific and the midnight massacre, part 1: the terrific part
- Who needs Nolan Ryan anyway?
- Gilly and Yoge
- The voyage of the Clotilda
- Tom Terrific and the midnight massacre, part 2: the massacre part
- This call to the bullpen brought to you by: Mettle the Mule
- The decapitated cat
- Fuck the Yankees, part 1: Doc and Darryl in the Bronx
- How Mackey Sasser got the Yips
- Bobby Bonilla Day
- The Grand Slam single and the walk-off walk
- Fuck the Yankees, part 2: the Subway series
- The legend of Endy
- Bernie Madoff stole this chapter
- The evidence points toward dupe
- Seventh-inning stretch: the other guy who was conning the Mets while Madoff was conning the Mets
- A big sexy day to remember
- Bring in the exorcist
- The last polar bear.