Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the ’86 Mets Audiobook (Free)

They said it had been the “Curse from the Bambino.” They stated “the bad guys won.” Right now among baseball’s all-time great guys, NY Mets story Mookie Wilson, tells his aspect from the story-from the bottom ball through Expenses Buckner’s hip and legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Video game Six rally against the Boston Red Sox to the rise and fall of the team that boasted such outsize personalities as Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, and Davey Johnson.

Growing about Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the ’86 Mets up in rural SC in the 1960s, Mookie took to heart the lessons of his dad, a diligent sharecropper who thought in the abiding force of faith-and taught his son the overall game that would alter his life.

When Mookie landed in Shea Stadium in 1980, the Mets were a perennial cellar-dweller overshadowed with the crosstown Yankees. But inspired by Mookie’s famous hustle, they might soon end up being the toast of NY. And even though their off-field antics-made well-known by a contingency from the team known as “the Scum Number”-eclipsed their on-field successes, Mookie remained above the fray.

In 1986, the Mets were a juggernaut, winning 108 games during the regular season and edging the Houston Astros for the Country wide League pennant carrying out a grueling 16-inning Game Six classic. In the World Series against Boston, within an epic at-bat that led to the Buckner mistake, Mookie would ignite a open fire beneath the Mets, helping to force a Game Seven. New York would win to be World Champions.

Within an era when role models in sports were hard to come by, some tarnished by their own hubris and greed, Mookie Wilson remained the exception: a man of humility and honor when it mattered probably the most.

HAVING A FOREWARD BY KEITH HERNANDEZ