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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, And The PeopleS Team
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Metropolitans Expertly Unpacks The Cruel Optimism Linking The Yearning Of A Fanbase Whose Suffering Is Alleviated By Sporadic Miracles To The Genuine Dissident Legacies That Surrounded The TeamS Creation And Which Have Occasionally, Miraculously, Come Back To Life. Jonathan Lethem, Author Of Motherless Brooklyn And The Fortress Of Solitudea Love Letter To A Franchise And A Thrilling Study Of New York City, Metropolitans Traces The Electric And Calamitous History Of The New York Mets.Metropolitans Is For Mets Fans, New York Partisans, And Everyone Interested In The Mobius Strip Dynamic Of Sports And Politics, The History Of The National Game, Or The Beautiful Contradiction Of Baseball Itself: A MiddleClass Game Owned By Billionaires, In Which The PlayersLike The SpectatorsLook To Traverse The Diamond And Ultimately Safely Escape Its Many Dangers. Along The Way, A.M. Gittlitz ReIntroduces Us To An Eccentric Cast Of Metsian Characters: Joan Payson, The First Woman To Buy A Major League Baseball Team; A Young Tom Seaver With An Interest In Progressive Politics; And The Contentious But Beloved Mike Piazza.Gittlitz Leads Us Through BaseballS Amateur Beginnings To The Mets First Heady World Series On The Heels Of The Civil Rights And AntiWar Movements That Many Mets Players Participated In. He Guides Us To The Bad Boy Years, The Exploitative Development Of Farm Academies In Developing Nations, And Their Inglorious Purchase By A New Breed Of CapitalistEven After Which They Remained Lovable Losers.Metropolitans Brilliantly Shows Us That Sports Have Long Been A Site Of Political Struggle, Rousing Class Consciousness, And Animating Fights For Racial Equality. From Purportedly Calming Riots In 69 To Producing Some Of The Greatest Chokes In Sporting History, From Integration To Desperate Labor Struggle Against Franchise Owners, Metropolitans Makes A Deeply Humane And Convincing Argument For The Fascinating Singularity Of The New York MetsAnd Why They Are Not Just The Team Of The Counterculture, The Freaks, And The Losers, But The Beloved Team Of Anyone With A Beating Heart.
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