Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team
Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team is a volume one of a two-part retrospective on the history of the New York Mets, a team that is now in its fifty-second season of play.
The author, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, attended over 1600 games at the Polo Grounds and William A. Shea Municipal Stadium between July 15, 1962, and July 16, 2002. While he has not attended games since that point for reasons that are described in the book, he was pretty visible in the stands as a very unofficial cheerleader for over a quarter of a century, known as “The Lone Ranger of Shea Stadium.”
Droleskey provides a personal retrospective on the origins of the Mets, highlighting some of the quirks of a quirky team, including memories of utterly meaningless games that might put a smile or two on the faces of those who have followed the team over the years. The books contains lots and lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
A vast revision and expansion of his first book on the Mets, There Is No Cure For This Condition, which was published in 2001, this book has been methodically researched and documented to assure its factual accuracy (memory can be a little tricky as the years pass by). There are also observations concerning the state of baseball and today, noting changes that have taken place in the past fifty years.
What distinguishes Volume I of Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of A Quirky Team, from other books on the New York Mets is the manner in which Droleskey makes the past come alive through a series of personal vignettes and reminiscences that cause readers to say, “Hey, I remember that!” The books contains lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
Even those who are not fans of the Mets or even of baseball have reported enjoying the book. One reader from the Cleveland, Ohio, area in her sixties reported that she had bought the book for her husband, finding, however, that she could not put it down once she had picked it up. The book engrosses readers with not only a wealth of material about obscure baseball games and players, but with observations intended to note the changes that have taken place in the past fifty years since the Mets took the field in a regular season game for the first time on Wednesday evening, April 11, 1962, at the old Busch Stadium (formerly known as Sportsman Park) in St. Louis, Missouri. Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team entertains and informs in a manner that will have readers looking forward to Volume II, which will cover the years from 1987 to 2012.
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The author, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, attended over 1600 games at the Polo Grounds and William A. Shea Municipal Stadium between July 15, 1962, and July 16, 2002. While he has not attended games since that point for reasons that are described in the book, he was pretty visible in the stands as a very unofficial cheerleader for over a quarter of a century, known as “The Lone Ranger of Shea Stadium.”
Droleskey provides a personal retrospective on the origins of the Mets, highlighting some of the quirks of a quirky team, including memories of utterly meaningless games that might put a smile or two on the faces of those who have followed the team over the years. The books contains lots and lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
A vast revision and expansion of his first book on the Mets, There Is No Cure For This Condition, which was published in 2001, this book has been methodically researched and documented to assure its factual accuracy (memory can be a little tricky as the years pass by). There are also observations concerning the state of baseball and today, noting changes that have taken place in the past fifty years.
What distinguishes Volume I of Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of A Quirky Team, from other books on the New York Mets is the manner in which Droleskey makes the past come alive through a series of personal vignettes and reminiscences that cause readers to say, “Hey, I remember that!” The books contains lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
Even those who are not fans of the Mets or even of baseball have reported enjoying the book. One reader from the Cleveland, Ohio, area in her sixties reported that she had bought the book for her husband, finding, however, that she could not put it down once she had picked it up. The book engrosses readers with not only a wealth of material about obscure baseball games and players, but with observations intended to note the changes that have taken place in the past fifty years since the Mets took the field in a regular season game for the first time on Wednesday evening, April 11, 1962, at the old Busch Stadium (formerly known as Sportsman Park) in St. Louis, Missouri. Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team entertains and informs in a manner that will have readers looking forward to Volume II, which will cover the years from 1987 to 2012.
Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team
Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team is a volume one of a two-part retrospective on the history of the New York Mets, a team that is now in its fifty-second season of play.
The author, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, attended over 1600 games at the Polo Grounds and William A. Shea Municipal Stadium between July 15, 1962, and July 16, 2002. While he has not attended games since that point for reasons that are described in the book, he was pretty visible in the stands as a very unofficial cheerleader for over a quarter of a century, known as “The Lone Ranger of Shea Stadium.”
Droleskey provides a personal retrospective on the origins of the Mets, highlighting some of the quirks of a quirky team, including memories of utterly meaningless games that might put a smile or two on the faces of those who have followed the team over the years. The books contains lots and lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
A vast revision and expansion of his first book on the Mets, There Is No Cure For This Condition, which was published in 2001, this book has been methodically researched and documented to assure its factual accuracy (memory can be a little tricky as the years pass by). There are also observations concerning the state of baseball and today, noting changes that have taken place in the past fifty years.
What distinguishes Volume I of Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of A Quirky Team, from other books on the New York Mets is the manner in which Droleskey makes the past come alive through a series of personal vignettes and reminiscences that cause readers to say, “Hey, I remember that!” The books contains lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
Even those who are not fans of the Mets or even of baseball have reported enjoying the book. One reader from the Cleveland, Ohio, area in her sixties reported that she had bought the book for her husband, finding, however, that she could not put it down once she had picked it up. The book engrosses readers with not only a wealth of material about obscure baseball games and players, but with observations intended to note the changes that have taken place in the past fifty years since the Mets took the field in a regular season game for the first time on Wednesday evening, April 11, 1962, at the old Busch Stadium (formerly known as Sportsman Park) in St. Louis, Missouri. Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team entertains and informs in a manner that will have readers looking forward to Volume II, which will cover the years from 1987 to 2012.
The author, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, attended over 1600 games at the Polo Grounds and William A. Shea Municipal Stadium between July 15, 1962, and July 16, 2002. While he has not attended games since that point for reasons that are described in the book, he was pretty visible in the stands as a very unofficial cheerleader for over a quarter of a century, known as “The Lone Ranger of Shea Stadium.”
Droleskey provides a personal retrospective on the origins of the Mets, highlighting some of the quirks of a quirky team, including memories of utterly meaningless games that might put a smile or two on the faces of those who have followed the team over the years. The books contains lots and lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
A vast revision and expansion of his first book on the Mets, There Is No Cure For This Condition, which was published in 2001, this book has been methodically researched and documented to assure its factual accuracy (memory can be a little tricky as the years pass by). There are also observations concerning the state of baseball and today, noting changes that have taken place in the past fifty years.
What distinguishes Volume I of Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of A Quirky Team, from other books on the New York Mets is the manner in which Droleskey makes the past come alive through a series of personal vignettes and reminiscences that cause readers to say, “Hey, I remember that!” The books contains lots of trivia about the Mets and baseball, interspersed with personal many bits of cultural trivia and history that will capture the reader’s attention.
Even those who are not fans of the Mets or even of baseball have reported enjoying the book. One reader from the Cleveland, Ohio, area in her sixties reported that she had bought the book for her husband, finding, however, that she could not put it down once she had picked it up. The book engrosses readers with not only a wealth of material about obscure baseball games and players, but with observations intended to note the changes that have taken place in the past fifty years since the Mets took the field in a regular season game for the first time on Wednesday evening, April 11, 1962, at the old Busch Stadium (formerly known as Sportsman Park) in St. Louis, Missouri. Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team entertains and informs in a manner that will have readers looking forward to Volume II, which will cover the years from 1987 to 2012.
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| BN ID: | 2940016604633 |
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| Publisher: | Chartes Communications |
| Publication date: | 04/08/2013 |
| Series: | Volume , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 442 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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