The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and t | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0060507330
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780060507336
ASIN: 0060507330
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
The story behind the team that won the extraordinary 1986 World Series August 20, 2008
Richard Murphy (Winchester, England)
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 and victory in the 1986 World Series - and 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 and drama of the 1986 Mets baseball team - the triumphs and the disasters, the fighting, gambling, beer drinking, drug-taking, womanising and the baseball.
By the time it gets to chapter 19, the scene is set for "the greatest managerial screwup in 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 and captures the human stories behind one of baseball's most remembered World Series. A great read.
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