The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and 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 year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, 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.
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PETER C. BJARKMAN writes extensively about baseball, basketball, and travel-related topics. He has published two previous books on Cuban baseball, plus a history of baseball in Latin America and more than three dozen other titles treating major league baseball, NBA basketball, and NCAA basketball. His recent work includes team history encyclopedias on the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Celtics, and New York Knicks. A fluent Spanish speaker, Bjarkman has twice been featured on Cuban national television discussing Cuban League baseball and the Cuban national team, the only American to claim this distinction during the 40-plus years of the Cuban Revolution.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Hardly Encyclopedic,
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This review is from: The New York Mets Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
I guess it's pretty easy to call something an encyclopedia these days. Most teams have them, and this one is inferior to most of the others I've seen. First, its 320 pages pales in comparison. Secondly, the last hundred pages could have been condensed into about a dozen.Most egregious of all are the errors, and there are quite a few. Rusty Staub's bio refers to him as a "third sacker." The caption of the Willie Mays photo on pg. 154 says he "receives a shower in the aftermath of the 1969 division-clinching victory." For the most part, the bios in the book are unoriginal and stale, particularly for anyone with even a rudimentary background in the history of the Mets. If you have any of the books this one claims to be "designed to overhaul and supplant," you need not buy this one. On the positive side are the photos from the George Brace collection which pepper the book. It is a welcome change from the usual sources of period photography, Photo File and the Mets themselves. I don't know if author Peter C. Bjarkman has read the Phillies Encyclopedia, but it should be the next thing he sees when another idea like this comes along. And Sports Publishing, Inc. has done little to assuage the fears that it has become the McPublisher of Sports Literature. I am very disappointed.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
ouch! this could make even ME a yankees fan!,
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This review is from: The New York Mets Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
this book kept getting delayed for nearly two years, and i had thought it was to make sure it would be thorough and correct. boy, was i ever wrong!this is a total disaster. just a cursory reading and i noticed a dozen factual errors. i mean: listing billy taylor among the all-time season saves leaders? thats only symptomatic of the shoddy workmanship that went into this book. any longtime mets fan (and ive been there since the beginning) would be able to do a better job than this. do NOT go near this outrageously overpriced pile of dross! it is as valuable to a mets fan as -- well, as kevin mcreynolds! BOO! HISS!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Does not appear to be up to the necessary standard,
By Professor Rowe "Dr. Rowe" (North Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New York Mets Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
This encyclopedia does does not appear to be up to the necessary standard for a team encyclopedia. Numerous errors that even a non-Mets fan, such as myself, was able to spot. Additionally, the prose is jerky and the tone is overly familiar.
It does not seems appropriate that Dr. Bjarkman reviews his own book and rates it 5 stars on this page.
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If Mets history-1ike that of most big-league clubs-has been an endless roller coaster of exhilarating peaks and depressing valleys, century's end has definitely witnessed one of the more hopeful upturns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postseason record, postseason heroics, mound corps, managerial record, baseball annals, league basement, major league mark, pennant chase, errorless games, most memorable seasons, batting mark, home attendance, partial season, baseball universe, first sacker, dozen seasons, staff ace, senior circuit, divisional play, round trippers, club fortunes, career season, junior circuit, postseason play, expansion club Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Other Teams, Tom Seaver, World Series, Shea Stadium, Los Angeles, National League, San Francisco, San Diego, None Nationality, Brace Photo, Kansas City, Darryl Strawberry, Jerry Koosman, Dwight Gooden, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Davey Johnson, Keith Hernandez, Cleon Jones, Bud Harrelson, Mookie Wilson, Casey Stengel, Mike Piazza, Roger Craig New!
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If Mets history-1ike that of most big-league clubs-has been an endless roller coaster of exhilarating peaks and depressing valleys, century's end has definitely witnessed one of the more hopeful upturns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postseason record, postseason heroics, mound corps, managerial record, baseball annals, league basement, major league mark, pennant chase, errorless games, most memorable seasons, batting mark, home attendance, partial season, baseball universe, first sacker, dozen seasons, staff ace, senior circuit, divisional play, round trippers, club fortunes, career season, junior circuit, postseason play, expansion club Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Other Teams, Tom Seaver, World Series, Shea Stadium, Los Angeles, National League, San Francisco, San Diego, None Nationality, Brace Photo, Kansas City, Darryl Strawberry, Jerry Koosman, Dwight Gooden, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Davey Johnson, Keith Hernandez, Cleon Jones, Bud Harrelson, Mookie Wilson, Casey Stengel, Mike Piazza, Roger Craig New!
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