Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl - How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York''s Baseball Soul

Informationen zum Autor Chris Donnelly is the author of Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball (Nebraska, 2023), How the Yankees Explain New York, and Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History.   Klappentext Chris Donnelly is the author of How the Yankees Explain New York and Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees! Mariners! and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History.¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. A Seismic Shift 2. “Never Played the Game” 3. Attendance Envy 4. Fun to Be a Met 5. Billy and George, a Love/Hate Story 6. The Russians Attack Atlanta 7. Hospital Management 8. “I’m Going to Kill You” 9. “One Tremendous Baseball Season” Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Chris Donnelly
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781496205537
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0553-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Baseball, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History