Yells for Ourselves (eBook)

A Story of New York City and the New York Mets at the Dawn of the Millennium

Matthew Callan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Inkshares (Verlag)
978-1-947848-49-8 (ISBN)

Infos

For the die-hard New York Mets fan, Yells for Ourselves is an in-depth exploration of the Mets’ fevered attempt to recapture the heart of the city from their crosstown rivals at the turn of the century.

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During the 1990s, as New York was transformed from a crumbling city into a vibrant metropolis, the New York Mets were anything but vibrant. Beginning in 1999, the team waged a battle to recapture the hearts of New York baseball fans from their crosstown rivals, and they came closer to succeeding than anyone dared dream. At the same time, mayor Rudy Giuliani-architect of this new New York and those rivals' biggest cheerleader-was engaged in his own battles to win a Senate seat and to save his sagging legacy as savior of the city. Yells For Ourselves chronicles the 1999 and 2000 seasons of the New York Mets, and explores how local and national politics were interwoven with the obsessions of a baseball-mad city. It paints a picture of this forgotten time in the history of baseball and New York, when new ballparks, rapid expansion, and "e;enhanced training methods"e; caused a home run explosion; when rising free agent salaries separated teams into the Haves and Have Nots; and when a politico's answer to the question Mets or Yankees? could make global headlines. Above all, Yells For Ourselves captures what happened when an underdog struggled to find an identity in a city with no room left for lovable losers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Baseball • baseball ball • baseball fans • baseball games • baseball games online • baseball history • baseball league • baseball management • baseball online • baseball players • baseball playoffs • baseball reference • baseball rules • baseball schedule • baseball scores • baseball standings • baseball stats • baseball teams • baseball websites • Hillary Clinton • History • Major League Baseball • Memoir • METs • MLB • mlb baseball • MLB fans • mlb games • mlb teams • National baseball league • New York baseball • New York Mets • New York Yankees • Non-fiction • Nonfiction • ny baseball • NY Mets • NY Mets history • NY Yankees history • official mlb baseball • rudy giuliani • SPORTS & RECREATION • Sports Fans • Sports History
• ISBN-10: 1-947848-49-6 / 1947848496
• ISBN-13: 978-1-947848-49-8 / 9781947848498