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  • ISBN:
    0803278225
  • ISBN-13:
    9780803278226
  • PUB. DATE:
    March 2005
  • PUBLISHER:
    University of Nebraska Press
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The Worst Team Money Could Buy by Bob Klapisch, John Harper

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Worst Team Money Could Buyby Anonymous

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The authors give an inside glimpse at the great powerful Mets teams of the late 80s (when the Mets ruled New York) and that team's sad decline. Chock full of inside tidbits and funny stories, it's a great read for every Mets fan. Despite the tabliod nature of the book, the authors go out of their way to put to rest trumped up charges- such as the famous David Cone in the bullpen story- which time...

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Amazingly for a book written by sportswriters (the masters of condensation) this book is a well written, riveting tale from end to end. The authors, having had intimate connections with the Mets from the 1980s onward, were firsthand witnesses to the fall of the franchise from its 80s domination to a cellar dwelling laughingstock. While the subject of the book is centered around the dreadful, boring...

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The Worst Team Money Could Buy

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  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sales Rank: 435,011

Synopsis

Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however. Veteran newspapermen Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets’ decline and fall—with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper. From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical “jokes” that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grand-slam classic.

Biography

Bob Klapisch is a sports columnist covering major-league baseball for The Record. Klapisch has worked at the New York Post and the New York Daily News and is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the author of five baseball books, including High and Tight: The Rise and Fall of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. John Harper covered the Mets for the New York Post from 1988 to 1992 before joining the Daily News, where he is a sports columnist.