American Decades
The New York Mets
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Nonfiction work
By: Jimmy Breslin
Date: 1963
Source: Breslin, Jimmy. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? New York: Viking Press, 1963. Revised ed., New York: Ballantine, 1970, 88–89, 90–93.
About the Author: Jimmy Breslin (1930–) was born in Jamaica, New York. After attending Long Island University, he worked as a sportswriter for several New York City newspapers, including the New York Herald Tribune and New York Post, before becoming a freelance journalist in 1969. He has written fourteen books, including several novels, as well as articles and columns for many newspapers and magazines.
The Perfect Game: Tom Seaver and the Mets
Autobiography
By: Tom Seaver with Dick Schaap
Date: 1970
Source: Seaver, Tom, with Dick Schaap. The...
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1960's Sports Primary Sources
- Ted Williams's Farewell
- Roger Maris at Bat
- Roone Arledge
- "The Complete Concentration of Mr. Palmer"
- Vince Lombardi
- The New York Mets
- Johnny Unitas
- Michigan State Ties Notre Dame
- Red Auerbach: Winning the Hard Way
- The Olympic Protests
- Super Bowl III
- Muhammad Ali and the Draft
- Wilt Chamberlain's One Hundred Point Game
- UCLA Basketball
- Wilma
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
