The Ultimate New York Mets TriviaBook is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Mets.
You will be tested on your knowledge of mind-blowing facts from the early days of the franchise as well as the current era of Mets baseball led by the likes of Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, and Michael Conforto.
Within these pages, you will find answers to over 350 trivia questions as well as hundreds of interesting facts, including:
What is the name of the Mets' mascot?
Country singer, Tim McGraw is the son of former Mets pitcher, Tug McGraw.
Who was the first manager of the Mets?
Darryl Strawberry is one of only three MLB players to have played for all four former and current New York teams- the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants.
On September 21, 2001, 10 days after the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Mike Piazza hit a home run in the first professional sporting event in New York since the attacks.
Whether you're a lifelong Mets fan or are simply looking to hit one out of the park on MLB Trivia Night at your local bar, The Ultimate New York Mets Trivia Book is a grand slam.
Описание: "Combining statistical analysis, common sense, and a host of intangibles, Brian Wright constructs an all-time All-Star Mets line-up for the ages"--
Автор: Mumau Thad Название: Maz to Yaz to Amazin`: Baseball`s Spectacular 1960`s ISBN: 1938545850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938545856 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Charles Kupfer Название: Something Magic: The Baltimore Orioles, 1979-1983 ISBN: 0786499354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499359 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Orioles Magic is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship era, when they played excellent, exciting ball with a penchant for late-inning heroics. This book analyzes the Orioles not just as a great team but as the team to be marked by the fabled ""Oriole Way,"" an organizational commitment to fundamentally sound baseball that guided them for nearly 30 years. The Magic years are discussed in the context of Baltimore sports, fan culture and baseball history, recalling the thrills of a splendid squad that delighted fans and reminding us why Peter Gammons called the 1979-1983 Orioles one of the major league's ""last fun teams.
Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history, it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. A Game of Brawl re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the dirtiest team in baseball. Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and “Foxy” Ned Hanlon were proven winners—but their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air.
Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country’s history to that time. His book captures the drama of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball’s first and most notorious evil empire.
Автор: Bob Luke Название: Integrating the Orioles: Baseball and Race in Baltimore ISBN: 1476662126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476662121 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on primary sources and interviews with former executives, players and sportswriters, this book tells the story of the integration of the Baltimore Orioles. The author describes how tensions between community leaders and team officials aborted negotiations to both increase black attendance and put an African American in the club`s executive ranks.
No one had really heard of Chaminade University—a tiny NAIA Catholic school in Honolulu with fewer than eight hundred undergraduates—until its basketball game against the University of Virginia on December 23, 1982. The Chaminade Silverswords defeated the Cavaliers, then the Division I, No. 1–ranked team in the nation, in what the Washington Post later called “the biggest upset in the history of college basketball.” Virginia was the most heralded team in the country, led by seven?foot?four?inch, three?time College Basketball Player of the Year Ralph Sampson. They had just been paid $50,000—more than double Chaminade’s annual basketball budget—to play an early season tournament in Tokyo and were making a “stopover” game in Hawaii on their way back to the mainland. The Silverswords, led by forward Tony Randolph, came back in the second half and won the game 77–72.
Chaminade’s incredible victory became known as the “Miracle on Ward Avenue” or simply “The Upset” in Hawaii and was featured in the national news. Never before in the history of college basketball had a school moved so dramatically and irretrievably into the nation’s consciousness. The Silverswords’ victory was more than just an upset; it was something considered impossible. And the team’s wins over major college programs continued in the ensuing years. Today Chaminade is still referred to as “The Giant Killers”—the school that beat Ralph Sampson and Virginia.
The Greatest Upset Never Seen relives the 1982–83 season, when Chaminade put small?college basketball and Hawaii on the national sports map.
Many call it the biggest upset in sports history. Bigger than the Jets over the Colts in Super Bowl III. Bigger than the U.S. hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Bigger than Buster Douglas's stunning KO of Mike Tyson 10 years later.
When little-known UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) takes the floor against mighty Virginia in the first round of the 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament, the whole world knows the Retrievers will lose. They're 20 1/2-point underdogs. ESPN's Power Basketball Index gives them a 1.5 per cent chance of winning. They're a lowly 16-seed going against the overall no. 1-seed. And a 16 has never beaten a 1. Never, ever.
Yet on a magical weekend in Charlotte, N.C., the odds go up in flames. March Madness hits a whole new level. This is the dramatic story of the singular team that made bracket-busting history and thrilled a nation, and the school that headline writers and social media pundits were now calling - devoid of irony - "U MUST BE CINDERELLA "
Many call it the biggest upset in sports history. Bigger than the Jets over the Colts in Super Bowl III. Bigger than the U.S. hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Bigger than Buster Douglas's stunning KO of Mike Tyson 10 years later.
When little-known UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) takes the floor against mighty Virginia in the first round of the 2018 NCAA men's basketball tournament, the whole world knows the Retrievers will lose. They're 20 1/2-point underdogs. ESPN's Power Basketball Index gives them a 1.5 per cent chance of winning. They're a lowly 16-seed going against the overall no. 1-seed. And a 16 has never beaten a 1. Never, ever.
Yet on a magical weekend in Charlotte, N.C., the odds go up in flames. March Madness hits a whole new level. This is the dramatic story of the singular team that made bracket-busting history and thrilled a nation, and the school that headline writers and social media pundits were now calling - devoid of irony - "U MUST BE CINDERELLA "
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