Art Shamsky and Erik Sherman- AFTER THE MIRACLE The Lasting Brotherhood of the 69 Mets
The 1962 New York Mets set a record for futility in baseball, losing 120 games, a record that stands to this day. Seven years later, after languishing in the National League cellar year after year, the Mets won the World Series. The \u201cLovable Losers\u201d suddenly became the \u201cMiracle Mets\u201d in perhaps the greatest worst-to-first transformation in sports history.
\nArt Shamsky played right field for the 1969 Mets. In AFTER THE MIRACLE: The Lasting Brotherhood of the \u201969 Mets (Simon & Schuster, March 19, 2019) he draws on conversations with his former teammates as well as his own recollections to explain how the Mets turned it all around in one year. In 2017, Shamsky organized a trip with former teammates Bud Harrelson, Jerry Koosman, and Ron Swoboda to visit ailing star pitcher Tom Seaver in California, where the men reminisced about how the Mets did it and what has happened to them and their teammates since.
\nTheir good-natured banter lets readers eavesdrop on how the players themselves remember the highlight of their careers. For anyone who remembers this extraordinary event \u2013 and for those who have only heard about it \u2013 AFTER THE MIRACLE is the inside story, a fan\u2019s dream come true.