New York Mets Encyclopedia

by Peter C. Bjarkman

Book Overview

The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball's most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582610355
• ISBN13: 9781582610351
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

For all devoted Mets fans and sports bar trivia buffs

Peter Bjarkman has published more than thirty-five books on baseball and basketball history. The New York Mets Encyclopedia is his latest work and presents the Mets fan and sports historian with an exhaustive, 325 page encyclopedia covering all aspects of the New York Mets baseball team, profusely illustrated with two hundred photographs. Bjarkman's informative and authoritative essays and profuse statistical tables make The New York Mets Encyclopedia a "must" for all devoted Mets fans and sports bar trivia buffs.

After a Long Wait, It's Finally Here!

Finally! I have been waiting and waiting forever for this to come out! Now I am glad it did! It is not a bad encyclopedia but I would have liked it to be more acurate.

Sour Rabbit

Each reader is entitled to his own opinion and readers' reviews are often a useful guide. The review of the Mets Encyclopedia by Brooklyn's Fletcher Rabbit is, however, an example of the silliness to which such freewheeling reader reviews can slump. Yes, it is true that the Mets Encyclopedia contains a handful of typographical errors that slipped through the editorial process (as often happens with the best of scholarly books). One photo caption has Bobby Thomson's name mispelled and Billy Taylor did erronously make it onto a list of single-season save leaders because his 1999 totals include his 26 saves with Oakland before he was traded to NY. But the book was indeed carefully researched and provides some highly entertaining accounts of Mets history. Mets fans and baseball readers in general will hopefully judge it on its larger merits. If a small handful of typos were enough to pan a book there would be few baseball histories that would ever pass muster. Read this one and judge for yourself. The author.