The Miracle Has Landed
The Amazin' Story Of How The 1969 Mets Shocked The World
Editor: MatthewSilverman
Maple Street Press Llc (United States), 2009
Paperback, 400 pages
Size: 280x204 mm
ISBN: 9781934186176
ISBN-10: 1934186171
List price: £21.00
You save: 30%
The Miracle Has Landed
The Amazin Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World. Seven seasons after the Mets debuted with the most losses in modern baseball history, the franchise was still seen as a laughingstock, with 100-to-1 odds to win the World Series when 1969 began. The first year of divisional play started out as the Cubs year, while most onlookers figured the Mets would be happy if they could play .500 ball. Tom Seavers Imperfect Game against Chicago showed that the Mets could play with the big boys, but the Cubs still had a double-digit lead on the Mets in the middle of August. The Cubs stumbled, plagued by worn-out players, black cats, and bad luck, and
