Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball

by Chris Donnelly Narrated by Kyle Tait

Overview

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the twenty-first century.

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Without their manic, meddling owner, the Yankees fell into the hands of Gene Michael. Michael made shrewd trades and free agent signings, and he allowed the team's prospects to develop in the Minor Leagues before getting to the Bronx.



Meanwhile, the Mets, beloved for their intensity and hard-partying ways in the 1980s, became everything that had driven fans away from the Yankees. They made bad trades and questionable signings, fired managers seemingly every year, and were a powder keg of controversy. By 1996, despite their record, the Mets were already making moves that would set them on a path to the ultimate showdown with the Yankees.



Road to Nowhere tells the story of how two teams that had swapped roles in the 1980s swapped them right back in the early 1990s.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The battle for New York has always been a rich part of the city’s baseball tapestry, and there was a time it seemed the Mets would own its soul forever. In Chris Donnelly’s meticulously reported and wonderfully written book Road to Nowhere we learn just how the Yankees regained their swagger—and, just as important, their sway over the best baseball town of all.”—Mike Vaccaro, New York Post columnist and author of 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports


“What a gift Chris Donnelly has given to baseball fans in New York and all those who live and die with the Mets and Yankees. Road to Nowhere is an insider’s look, chock-full of entertaining anecdotes and revealing details based on extensive research, of the period in the early and mid-nineties when the Big Apple became a Yankees town once again. Colorful, legendary characters abound in a delicious tale of baseball in Queens and the Bronx.”—Andrew Maraniss, author of Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke


“Chris Donnelly is an utmost authority on New York baseball during the 1990s. In Road to Nowhere, he has written the definitive book tying in the end of a mostly glorious 1980s decade. . . . It is a beautifully written book with plenty of fresh content from those who played on these two New York teams. A must-read for any baseball fan interested in that period.”—Erik Sherman, author of Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159984920
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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