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9780060507336

The Bad Guys Won!

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  • ISBN13:

    9780060507336

  • ISBN10:

    0060507330

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-19
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York.It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere. But their greatness on the field was nearly eclipsed by how bad they were off it. Led by the indomitable Keith Hernandez and the young dynamic duo of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, along with the gallant Scum Bunch, the Amazin's left a wide trail of wreckage in their wake -- hotel rooms, charter planes, a bar in Houston, and most famously Bill Buckner and the hated Boston Red Sox.With an unforgettable cast of characters -- including Doc, Straw, the Kid, Nails, Mex, and manager Davey Johnson -- this "affectionate but critical look at this exciting season" ( Publishers Weekly ) celebrates the last of baseball's arrogant, insane, rock-and-roll-and-party-all-night teams, exploring what could have been, what should have been, and what never was.

Author Biography

Jeff Pearlman covered major league baseball for six years as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Now a features writer for Newsday, Pearlman lives in New York with his wife, Catherine, and daughter, Casey

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(6)
Food Flight
7(11)
The Road to 1986
18(23)
``We're Going to Dominate''
41(15)
Metsmerized
56(18)
Drinking Days
74(13)
``The Kid'' and the Black Hats
87(16)
A Lonely Time to Be Wholesome
103(6)
Cooter's-Gate
109(16)
Doc and Darryl
125(15)
Out of Left Field
140(10)
Hot Stuff
150(16)
Please Stay Off the Field
166(8)
Great Scott
174(7)
``It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This''
181(24)
The Passion of Bill Buckner
205(7)
Boston and New York
212(11)
Revenge
223(9)
Near Death
232(14)
World Champs
246(15)
What Dynasty?
261(10)
Epilogue 271(14)
Acknowledgments 285

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