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The story behind the team that won the extraordinary 1986 World Series - By: Richard Murphy, 20 Aug 2008
This is the story about how the New York Mets went from the laughing stock of baseball with average crowds of 9700 to a team of stars, crowds of 35,000 & victoryin the 1986 World Series - & then how it all fell apart.

Although you will need a basic understanding of the rules of baseball to follow the on-field action, this is not just for the baseball fans. Jeff Pearlman has a clear, journalistic style that captures the energy & drama of the 1986 Mets baseball team - the triumphs & the disasters, the fighting, gambling, beer drinking, drug-taking, womanising & the baseball.

By the time it gets to chapter 19, the scene is set for "the greatest managerial screwupin baseball history", and,in the most unlikely of circumstances, the crushing of the Boston Red Sox' dream of breaking the Curse of the Bambino.

Overall this book fizzes along at great pace & captures the human stories behind one of baseball's most remembered World Series. A great read.