Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? : The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year (Paperback)

from rocketjk

I celebrated the beginning of the 2015 baseball season by pulling this wonderful, short, book down off my shelf, where it had been waiting patiently for my attention for many years. This is Breslin's look at the very first season of the New York Mets. Those 1962 Mets set a record for futility, lo...

from rosalita

Dedicated to the 922,530 brave souls who paid their way into the Polo Grounds in 1962. Never has so much misery loved so much company. Right off the bat I knew I was in good hands with Mr. Breslin, as he recounts the historical ineptitude of the New York Mets in 1962, their first year of existenc...

from TheAmpersand

Underwhelming. There's a good story to be told about the disastrous first year of the New York Mets -- several good stories, probably -- but this isn't it. Since Jimmy Breslin wrote this one before the 1963 season even started, he was probably still too close to the story, and the lack of perspec...

from ghr4

Jimmy Breslin's Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? is a great baseball book, hilariously recounting the horrendous first year of the New York Mets, the 1962 season in which the team lost an incredible 120 games, while winning only 40. For the best effect, you need to conjure up Breslin's distinct...

from ghr4

Jimmy Breslin's Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? is a great baseball book, hilariously recounting the horrendous first year of the New York Mets, the 1962 season in which the team lost an incredible 120 games, while winning only 40. For the best effect, you need to conjure up Breslin's distinct...