Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl

How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul

Chris Donnelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4100-9 (ISBN)

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Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts.

Despite their nearly identical records, the two teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets were filled with young, homegrown talent led by outfielder Darryl Strawberry and pitcher Dwight Gooden. They were complemented by veterans including Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ray Knight, and George Foster. Leading them was Davey Johnson, a player’s manager. It was a team filled with hard-nosed players who won over New York with their dirty uniforms, curtain calls, after-hours activities, and because, well, they weren’t the Yankees.

Meanwhile the Yankees featured some of the game’s greatest talent. Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, and Don Baylor led a dynamic offense, while veterans such as Ron Guidry and Phil Niekro rounded out the pitching staff. But the Yankees’ abundance of talent was easily overshadowed by their dominating owner, George Steinbrenner, whose daily intrusiveness made the 1985 Yankees appear more like a soap opera than a baseball team.

While the drama inside the Mets’ clubhouse only made the team more endearing to fans, the drama inside the Yankees’ clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and exciting season New York would see in generations.

Chris Donnelly is the author of Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball (Nebraska, 2023), How the Yankees Explain New York, and Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History.

Acknowledgments
1. A Seismic Shift
2. “Never Played the Game”
3. Attendance Envy
4. Fun to Be a Met
5. Billy and George, a Love/Hate Story
6. The Russians Attack Atlanta
7. Hospital Management
8. “I’m Going to Kill You”
9. “One Tremendous Baseball Season”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4962-4100-2 / 1496241002
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4100-9 / 9781496241009
Zustand	Neuware