Ebook: The New York Mets Encyclopedia

Stats, stories, and photos that capture Mets history from the Polo Grounds to Shea Stadium to Citi Field.
The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full exciting story of modern-era baseball's most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to the year-in and year-out contenders of recent decades, New York's National League Mets have written some of the most exciting and colorful pages in Major League history.
This is the team that captured the hearts of fans everywhere with its often-laughable antics under colorful and celebrated manager Casey Stengel. Only half a dozen years later, the Mets reached baseball's pinnacle under gifted manager Gil Hodges. This colorful volume combines detailed narrative history with archival photographs, rich statistical data, and intimate portraits of the team's most memorable personalities. This is also a franchise that has been home to many of the game's biggest on-field stars. Among them are such unforgettable characters as reckless slugger Darryl Strawberry; glue-fingered first sacker Keith Hernandez; baseball's all-world catcher, Mike Piazza; pitching ace Johan Santana; and record-breaking third baseman David Wright. In addition, the full scope of the Mets' fifty-plus-year history is discussed in an expansive chapter that gives a historical detailed overview—and features a year-by-year Mets chronology and season-by-season opening-day lineups.