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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
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Baseball, politics and heart collide in this exploration of the underdog team that graced Shea Stadium and captured the spirit of New Yorkers.
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"Gittlitz really means it. Come the revolution, the team that represents us will be wearing, he reassures the reader, the Mets colors: 'the hard-hat orange of the international working class, and our blue Earth.' [...] He makes a much better case than one might have thought possible."
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Met...
"Gittlitz really means it. Come the revolution, the team that represents us will be wearing, he reassures the reader, the Mets colors: 'the hard-hat orange of the international working class, and our blue Earth.' [...] He makes a much better case than one might have thought possible."
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Met...
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Catharsis: A Guest Post by A.M. Gittlitz
Baseball, politics and heart collide in this exploration of the underdog team that graced Shea Stadium and captured the spirit of New Yorkers. Read on for an exclusive essay from A.M. Gittlitz on writing Metropolitans.
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