A Magic Summer : The Amazin' Story of the 1969 New York Mets

A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team—Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others—provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans—and all baseball fans—will not soon forget. They were the?Miracle Mets,? winning a championship after a short ignominious history of catastrophic losing seasons. Here is the story of that most famous New York Mets season, 1969. Author Stanley Cohen interviewed key members of that championship team?Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Jerry Koosman, Tommie Agee, Bud Harrelson, Tug McGraw, and others?providing fascinating updates and insights. Complete with a new introduction by the author and photographs not included in previous editions, this 40th Anniversary Edition is a unique celebration of a season that Mets fans will never forget