Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul Audiobook (Free)

Nothing you’ve seen prior had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so later in the same season. For months New York followers imagined the 1st Subway Series in almost thirty years, as well as the Mets and the Yankees vied for his or her hearts.

Despite their nearly identical details, both teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets had been a team filled up with hard-nosed players who earned over New York with their filthy uniforms, curtain telephone calls, after-hours actions, and because, well, they weren’t the Yankees.

Meanwhile the Yankees presented some of the game’s greatest talent. But the Yankees’ great quantity of skill was easily overshadowed by their dominating owner, George Steinbrenner, whose daily intrusiveness produced the 1985 Yankees show up more like a cleaning soap opera than a baseball team.

While the drama inside the Mets’ clubhouse only produced the team even more endearing to fans, the drama in the Yankees’ clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and interesting season NY would observe in generations.