The worst team money could buy
Subtitle: the collapse of the New York Mets
By: Bob Klapisch and John Harper ; with an afterword by the authors.
Contributors: Harper, John, 1955-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: New York Mets (Baseball team) -- History.
Description: "Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality. The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however."

"Veteran newspaperman Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets' decline and fall - with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper. From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical "jokes" that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grandslam classic."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, c1993.