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Yells for Ourselves, A Story of New York City and the New York Mets at the Dawn of the Millennium, Matthew Callan

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Yells for Ourselves, A Story of New York City and the New York Mets at the Dawn of the Millennium, Matthew Callan

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eng

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Yells for Ourselves

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Matthew Callan

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A Story of New York City and the New York Mets at the Dawn of the Millennium

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Yells For Ourselves chronicles the 1999 and 2000 seasons of the New York Mets, and explores how local and national politics were interwoven with the obsessions of a baseball-mad city. It paints a picture of this forgotten time in the history of baseball and New York, when new ballparks, rapid expansion, and enhanced training methods caused a home run explosion; when rising free agent salaries separated teams into the Haves and Have Nots; and when a politico’s answer to the question Mets or Yankees? could make global headlines. Above all, Yells For Ourselves captures what happened when an underdog struggled to find an identity in a city with no room left for lovable losers

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