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ISBN
9781094168883
Publication Year
2021
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
So Many Ways to Lose LIB/e : The Amazin' True Story of the New York Mets--The Best Worst Team in Sports
Author
Devin Gordon
Publisher
HarperCollins CA, The Limited
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Topic
Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General, General

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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 other. Remember the time the Mets lost an All-Star after he got charged by a wild boar? Or the time they blew a six-run ninth-inning lead at the peak of a pennant race? Or the time they fired their manager before he ever managed a game? Sure you do. It was only two years ago, and it was all in the same season. The Mets have an unrivaled gift for getting it backward, doing the impossible, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, and then snatching defeat right back again. And yet, just ask any Mets fan: amazing and/or miraculous postseason runs are as much a part of our team's identity as losing 120 games in 1962. The DNA of seasons like 1969, the original Miracle Mets, and the 1973 "Ya Gotta Believe" Mets, who went from last place to Game 7 of the World Series in two months, and the powerhouse 1986 Mets, has encoded in us this hapless instinct that a reversal of fortune is always possible. It's happened before. It's kind of our thing. And now we've got Steve Cohen's hedge-fund billions to play with! What could go wrong? In this hilarious history of the Mets and love letter to the art of disaster, Devin Gordon presents baseball the way it really is, not in the wistful sepia tones we've come to expect from other sportswriters. Along the way, he explains the difference between being bad and being gifted at losing, and why this distinction holds the key to understanding the true amazin' magic of the New York Mets.

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Publisher
HarperCollins CA, The Limited
ISBN-10
1094168882
ISBN-13
9781094168883
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038755326

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Book Title
So Many Ways to Lose LIB/e : The Amazin' True Story of the New York Mets--The Best Worst Team in Sports
Author
Devin Gordon
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General, General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Sports & Recreation

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