Author: Art Shamsky and Erik Sherman
Genre: Nonfiction, Baseball, Sports, Memoir, Biography

The New York Mets franchise began in 1962 and the team finished in last place nearly every year. When the 1969 season began, fans weren’t expecting much from “the Lovable Losers.” But as the season progressed, the Mets inched closer to first place and then eventually clinched the National League pennant. They were underdogs against the formidable Baltimore Orioles, but beat them in five games to become world champions. No one had predicted it. In fact, fans could hardly believe it happened. Suddenly they were “the Miracle Mets.”

The inside account of an iconic team in baseball the 1969 New York Mets—a consistently last-place team that turned it all around in just one season—told by ’69 Mets outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, and other teammates as they reminisce about what happened then and where they are today.

Playing right field for the ’69 Mets was Art Shamsky, who had stayed in touch with his former teammates over the years. He hoped to get together with star pitcher Tom Seaver (who would win the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in the league in 1969 and go on to become the first Met elected to the Hall of Fame) but Seaver was ailing and could not travel. So, Shamsky organized a visit to Tom Terrific in California, accompanied by the #2 pitcher, Jerry Koosman, outfielder Ron Swoboda, and shortstop Bud Harrelson. Together they recalled the highlights of that amazing season as they reminisced about what changed the Mets’ fortunes in 1969.

With the help of sportswriter Erik Sherman, Shamsky has written After the Miracle for the 1969 Mets. This is a book that every Mets fan—and every baseball fan—must own.

As a lifelong, diehard Mets fanatic, when I spotted After the Miracle on sale for just $2.54, I knew the baseball gods were sending me a sign that it was time to bring this piece of Amazin’ history home.

With baseball season kicking off, I can’t wait to dive into the riveting story of the legendary ’69 Mets! Getting an inside look at how a team of Lovable Losers defied the odds to become World Champs? Sign me up!

The chance to relive that miracle season through the eyes of players like Tom Terrific Seaver, Koosman, Swoboda and Harrelson is a dream come true. Their personal stories and memories will bring that shock victory to life again.

As a Mets fanatic who has only heard tall tales of that storied championship run, I can’t wait to learn the real inside scoop first-hand from the players who lived it.

This is the perfect book to get me pumped up as I root for the Orange and Blue in the season ahead! Time to witness the miracle again through the voices of the men who made it happen. Let’s go Mets!