Description In the 1990s, New York rapidly transformed from a crumbling city into a vibrant metropolis.
For most of that decade, however, the New York Mets were anything but vibrant.
The city's attention drifted to its crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees.
In 1999, the team began waging a battle to recapture the hearts of their city's baseball fans.
At the same time, mayor Rudy Giuliani, architect of this new New York and the Yankees' biggest cheerleader, was engaged in his own battles: a fight for a Senate seat against first lady Hillary Clinton, and a fight to save his fading legacy as the savior of the city.
Drawing on exhaustive research from contemporary accounts, Yells For Ourselves chronicles the 1999 and 2000 seasons of the New York Mets, and explores how politics--both on a local and national level--were integral to the city's deep obsession with the sport and everything it represented.
Yells For Ourselves captures the underdog's struggle to find an identity in a new New York City--a place with no room left for lovable losers.
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Quill Yells for ourselves, paperback/matthew callan
