The New York Mets Encyclopedia, Second Edition

Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2003. Second Edition, Updated and Expanded. Near Fine condition in a Very Good+ dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($39.95). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owners' name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This is a large, heavy book that will be sent by MEDIA MAIL. Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater cost. Illustrated with photographs throughout. This 2003 updated edition includes a full-color panoramic foldout (4 pages wide) of Shea Stadium. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "THE NEW YORK METS ENCYCLOPEDIA provides the full and exciting story of modern baseball's most popular expansion franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 to the world champs of 1986 to the subway series of 2000, New York's National League Mets have written some of the most exciting and colorful pages of major league history. This is the team that captured the hearts of New Yorkers and fans everywhere with their often laughable antics under colorful and celebrated manager Casey Stengel and then, only half a dozen years later, climbed to baseball's pinnacle under gifted but tragic manager Gil Hodges. Overhauling and supplanting all previous Mets histories, this colorful volume combines detailed and highly readable narrative history with archival photographs, rich statistical data, and intimate portraits of the team's most memorable on-field and off-field personalities.". Second Edition, Updated and Expanded. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. vi, 330pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.