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The Bad Guys Won! |  | Author: Jeff Pearlman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 128488
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0060507330
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35764097471
EAN: 9780060507336
ASIN: 0060507330
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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| • | Hardcover - The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best | | • | Hardcover - The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best | | • | Paperback - Bad Guys Won | | • | Kindle Edition - The Bad Guys Won: A season of brawling, boozing, bimbo-chasing, and championship baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the rest of the ... on a New York uniform--and maybe the best | | • | Library Binding - The Bad Guys Won! |
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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.
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 The best baseball book ever. August 20, 2010
James Belcik
This book has it all like the preview says. It was interesting to see what the players had to say about one another some fourteen-fifteen years later while this book was being researched. I can sum this up with a quoate from Bobby Ojeda to Jeff Pearlman. "If you work hard, you're gonna find that we were a bunch of vile #!&@#%". Ojeda chuckled knowingly because it was 100 percent true and 100 percent fantastic.
the bad guys won me over May 3, 2010
great job by jeff pearlman creating a time machine back to the 1980's and making me feel like i was on the team
Comprehensive history for diehard Met fans March 19, 2010
James R. Gilligan (Lafayette, IN United States)
If you consider yourself a Met fan, you absolutely MUST read this book. Although I lived through every exhilarating and incredible moment of the Mets' 1986 season and post-season, I--like most fans--was unaware of most of what was going on off the field. Pearlman tells the warts-and-all story (and trust me, there are a lot of warts) of the individual players and the team as a whole. His unflinching drive to tell the truth about the 1986 Mets helps him create a compelling and three-dimensional tale of passion, arrogance, stupidity, and triumph. Pearlman obviously likes his subject, but he doesn't let his feelings get in the way of telling the truth--this is the complete story, from George Foster's unfounded accusations of managerial racism to Ray Knight's redemption and ultimate rejection. Reading this book made me want to re-watch the entire 1986 post-season--the insights Pearlman supplies will help you understand why the 1986 NY Mets' World Series victory was the most stirring and amazing victory in sports history--and no, that's not hyperbole.
Captures The 1986 Mets Season Quite Well February 7, 2010
Michael L. Slavin (New Jersey)
I would describe myself as a casual baseball fan. Definitely not a Mets fan. The author, writes vividly. He gets right to the nitty gritty. Whether he's describing some of the offensive obnoxious personalities and activities of many of that teams players or whether he's recounting the play action of key games. He traces back to the buildup of the team and then its dismantlement. Many good anecdotes about Mets as well as competitors. Read about Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry,Gary Carter,Keith Hernandez,Lenny Dykstra,Mookie Wilson,Ray Knight,George Foster,Wally Backman and such opponents as Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and Houston Astro pitcher Mike Scott who seemed to totally dominate them. I enjoyed this and found it to be a quick fun read.
If you want to know as much as possible about the 1986 Mets, the only thing better than this book is a time-travel machine January 14, 2010
Wolf
Several minor gripes come into my mind after reading this book, but in all honesty they fade before the author's very good work. You are *there*, in the clubhouse, next to both Hernandez and Teufel. You witness the partying, the drive, the personalities. Make no mistake, this book is much less a commentary of the season's game-by-game athletic achievements and much more a study of the clashing psychological and sociological factors at work within the Mets roster. Most importantly, Gooden and Strawberry are larger-than-life - the seeds of their (later) downfall are clearly shown. If you want to know as much as possible about the 1986 Mets, the only thing better than this book is a time-travel machine. Yes, it's that good, that detailed and that lively.
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