Celebrate the 1969 Miracle Mets in this new, updated SABR edition of The Miracle Has Landed.
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 Seaver’s ‘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 magnificent Mets pitching turned the tide.
The Miracle Has Landed celebrates the lovable Mets like no other book, complete with photos and artifacts of the time. A project of the Society for American Baseball Research, this volume gathers the collective efforts of more than thirty SABR members and features profiles of every player, coach, broadcaster, and significant front-office member connected to that great Mets squad. Included are biographies of the recently departed ‘Franchise’ player, Tom Seaver, and Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, beloved manager Gil Hodges, the talented outfield of Cleon Jones, Tommie Agee, and Ron Swoboda, drill sergeant backstop Jerry Grote, crucial mid-season acquisition Donn Clendenon, scrappy shortstop Bud Harrelson, and a pitching staff that went far deeper than just Seaver and Ryan. More than fifty years later the Miracle Mets are still revered, the first world champion expansion team and the club that stole New York’s heart.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
THE PLAYERS
Tommie Agee
Ken Boswell
Don Cardwell
Ed Charles
Donn Clendenon
Kevin Collins
Jack Di Lauro
Duffy Dyer
Danny Frisella
Wayne Garrett
Rod Gaspar
Gary Gentry
Jim Gosger
Jerry Grote
Bud Harrelson
Bob Heise
Jesse Hudson
Al Jackson
Bob Johnson
Cleon Jones
Cal Koonce
Jerry Koosman
Ed Kranepool
J.C. Martin
Jim Mc Andrew
Tug Mc Graw
Amos Otis
Bobby Pfeil
Les Rohr
Nolan Ryan
Tom Seaver
Art Shamsky
Ron Swoboda
Ron Taylor
Al Weis
COACHES & MANAGERS
GIl Hodges
Yogi Berra
Joe Pignatano
Rube Walker
Eddie Yost
FRONT OFFICE & ANNOUNCERS
Joan Whitney Payson
Johnny Murphy
M. Donald Grant
The Three Broadcast Amigos
Ralph Kiner 1969 Q&A
THE MIRACLE HAS LANDED
Meet the Mets
From Birth to Rebirth
Here’s Looking up our old address
Spring Ahead
A Season of Streaks, Shocks and Shutouts
Putting the Miracle in Miracle Mets
Terrific Imperfection
Beware of Moose
Buc No-Hits ’69 Mets
Platoon Halt!
October ’69
The Miracle at Willets Point
PERSPECTIVES & CONCLUSIONS
Cubs Eye View
Everyone Comes Home in October
The Wall
A ’69 Mets Quest
APPENDIX
Statistics for Regular Season 1969
Statistics for Postseason 1969
Contributors
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Ken Samelson is a freelance book editor and writer who grew up in the Bronx the son of a Giants fan mom and Yankees fan dad. He was a regular contributor to New York Mets Inside Pitch for 11 years and also served as an associate producer for Mets Extra on WFAN Radio from 1987 to 1990. The co-author of Amazing Mets Trivia, The Great All-Time Baseball Record Book, The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia Quiz Book, and The Baseball Encyclopedia (Macmillan), he lives in Larchmont, New York. His two children, Spencer and Lena, are not surprisingly both huge Mets fans.
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