The Worst Team Money Could Buy
- ISBN-10
- 0803278225
- ISBN-13
- 9780803278226
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 287
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-03-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
Description
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however. Veteran newspapermen Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets? decline and fall?with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper. From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical ?jokes? that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grand-slam classic.
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- 1993
- 281 pages
- Paperback
- Random House Incorporated
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