Review of
The Amazing Mets,
by Jerry Mitchell
Three out of five stars
At times rambling and always non-sequential
The return of
National League baseball to New York City was a major event, it reversed a
trend westward when the Dodgers and Giants both relocated to California. Unfortunately,
the new team, called the Mets, was a horrible team. Nearly all the players were
well past their prime, the management hoped to get a year or two out of them
before they retired. Furthermore, the Mets acquired Gil Hodges and Duke Snider,
old Brooklyn Dodgers, in the hope that they would bring fans of the Dodgers to
the stadium. Well past their prime, by
then they were marginal players.
The descriptions
of the Mets and the performance of the players and fans in the early years is
fun to read but is very non-sequential. It also reaches the point where it is somewhat
repetitive. The early Mets were a horrible team, yet they were beloved by their
fans, who stuck with them no matter how bad they were. This is not a history of
the early years, but a somewhat scattershot rendition of the first two years of
the Mets.
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