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Carregando... Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Metsde Greg W. Prince
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Greg Prince, one of the co-authors of the Mets blog Faith and Fear in Flushing - the most intelligent and literate Mets blog there is - writes about his 40 years as the guy everyone knows as the big Mets fan. Part memoir, part baseball history this book explores the ups & downs of fandom in parallel with the events of his life. If this sounds familiar it's because it is very similar in concept and execution to Fever Pitch. That is Fever Pitch the autobiographical book by Nick Hornby about his love for the Arsenal Football club, not the wholly fictional romantic comedy film about the Red Sox. Prince's ruminations on the Mets are a pleasure to read for the most part although he does have a tendency for repetition especially in the more navel-gazing portions of the book. As a fellow Mets fan, I enjoyed reliving the Mets good years and many fallow years from the perspective of another fan. I think this book could be enjoyable as well to someone unfamiliar with the Mets or with baseball, especially since it gives a literary perspective on the game that breaks from the mold of Yankees/Red Sox/Dodgers. If there's one thing I quibble with in this book is Prince's characterization of Mets fans loving the Mets but hating the players. While I think that negative attitude has become prominent in the past five years or so, historically that "win or your a bum" kind of thinking has been more of a Yankee fan ideology. Mets fans used to be opposite, the cult of the underdog, a humanistic approach to accepting the players despite their flaws and celebrating their accomplishments and commiserating with their failures. The Mets were a team the ordinary guy could identify with and thus players like Marv Throneberry, Lee Mazzili, Mookie Wilson, Butch Huskey, and Tsuyoshi Shinjo became local heroes despite never leading the league in anything. At any rate, I find it harder to be a Mets fan these days not because of the Mets but because of the hostile and vulgar attitude of my fellow "fans." This book gives me hope because it shows that there are still thoughtful and literate fans among our numbers. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The New York Mets fan is an Amazin' creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Prince's Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team. Prince, coauthor of the highly regarded blog of the same name, examines how the life of the franchise mirrors the life of its fans, particularly his own. Unabashedly and unapologetically, Prince stands up for all Mets fans and, by proxy, sports fans everywhere in exploring how we root, why we take it so seriously, and what it all means. What was it like to enter a baseball world about to be ruled by the Mets in 1969? To understand intrinsically that You Gotta Believe? To overcome the trade of an idol and the dissolution of a roster? To hope hard for a comeback and then receive it in thrilling fashion in 1986? To experience the constant ups and downs the Mets would dispense for the next two decades? To put ups with the Yankees right next door? To make the psychic journey from Shea Stadium to Citi Field? To sort the myths from the realities? Greg Prince, as he has done for thousands of loyal Faith and Fear in Flushing readers daily since 2005, puts it all in perspective as only he can. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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At its core, this book is half biography, and half being a fan and what that means, maybe 1/4 and 3/4, but let's not be nit picky. Anybody who is a diehard fan will recognize themselves in the books undertones, being a Mets fan also is just the icing on the cake. All in all, a well done, sometimes emotional, most of the time funny, look into what it means to be a fan of a team. ( )