The Worst Team Money Could Buy

WORST TEAM MONEY CAN BUY IS ABOUT THE 1992 METS WHO HAD THE HIGHEST PAYROLL IN BASEBALL BUT WERE A HUGE FLOP. THE PARTYING, WOMEN, EGOS, AND MANY OTHER ON AND OFF FIELD DISTRUPTIONS PUT THE METS IN THE CELLAR. THE AUTHORS DO A GOOD JOB DIGGING INTO THE DIRT AND DETAILS OF THE MANY OVERPAID AND UNDER PRODUCTIVE PLAYERS WHO MADE UP THIS ABORTION OF A TEAM. FROM MANAGER JEFF(THE CHRISTIAN) TORBORG, BOBBY BO, DAVID CONE(HEAD)... Read Full Review

As a hardcore baseball fan, this book appealed to me in a big way. I went in expecting a decent read but surprisingly, my expectations were exceeded. It's one of the best baseball books I've ever read, a much more engaging read than Bouton's highly acclaimed 'Ball Four'. We get inside an ugly Mets clubhouse in the early 90s. Warts get peeled off and there are many. Rape accusations, uptight managers (Torborg's no drinking... Read Full Review

I was born a Met fan and will remain one as long as the Mets exist. As I type this, I'm listening to Fred Wilpon talk about how Art Howe is going to turn the Mets around. This after the 2002 Mets, the team with the third highest payroll in baseball, finished last in the National League East.My thoughts, naturally, turn to this book.At the end of the abyssmal 1992 season for the New York Mets, Bob Klapisch and John Harper--beat... Read Full Review

The competition between newspapers in the New York market of the late '80s and early '90s was a precursor to 24-hour sports networks and the Internet in terms of bringing the personal and the issues of the locker room to the fore. Every paper was printing a game story, so the way to distinguish your coverage was to get the office politics, the behind-the-scenes stuff -- Vince Coleman and the golf club. David Cone and the allegations... Read Full Review

The book talks about the 1992 New York Mets which was full of overpaid underachievers who were expected to get into the World Series after finishing below .500 in 1991 for the first time since 1983. It shows the apparent rape and other sexual charges to players like Vince Coleman, Daryl Boston, David Cone and Doc Gooden. It showed the Mets of '92 did more off the field then on the field and you can tell by there record and... Read Full Review