* The Amazin' Mets Plus 40

August 22, 2009 · 2 comments

Weather permitting, the Mets will honor their 1969 World Championship team. George Vescey wrote an excellent column in yesterday’s New York Times.

Which sent me to my library to see what I’ve got specifically on that momentous event. Mant books about the team include a look back at that first championship, but the following titles deal exclusively with 1969 and the members of the team.

  • The Incredible Mets, by Maury Allen
  • The Year the Mets Lost Last Place, by Paul Zimmerman and Dick Schaap
  • The Perfect Game: Tom Seaver and the Mets, by Seaver and Schaap
  • Jimmy Breslin republished his entertaining 1963 Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, with a new introduction.

Since nature abhors a vacuum but loves books marking anniversaries, Allen took a look back in 1989 with After the Miracle: The Amazin’ Mets 20 Years Later. Stanley Cohen got the hump on the occasion, releasing A Magic Summer: The ’69 Mets the year before. He re-published this year with a new introduction.

The New York Daily News dipped into its archives to come out with Amazin’ Mets: The Miracle of ’69, featuring an introduction by Eddie Kranepool, the last original Met from 1962, and an afterword from Art Shamsky.

Shamsky wrote about that iconoic year in 2004 with the unwiedly-named The Magnificant Seasons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports History and Uplifted a City and a Nation.

This year will see a few new titles marking the 40th anniversary, including Steve Travers’ The 1969 Miracle Mets: The Improbable Story of the World’s Greatest Underdog Team and The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin’ Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World, edited by Matthew Silverman and Ken Samelson, due out in October from Maple Street Press (full disclosure: I contribiuted the chapters on the post-season).

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1 jewwishes August 24, 2009 at 12:10 am

That game was a moment in time…one to remember, for certain.

2 jewwishes August 23, 2009 at 7:10 pm

That game was a moment in time…one to remember, for certain.

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