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REVISED ... SABR Award Winner ... Long Before The Miracle charts the dawn of the New York Mets baseball franchise which manifested five years after the dual defection of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to the west coast after the 1957 season. A prologue details just why Walter O'Malley and Horace Stoneham moved their teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. As for the Mets, the book details who was responsible for influencing Major League Baseball to consider expansion into New York. It talks about who would fund the enterprise. It talks about the principal leaders of the organization. Lastly, character sketches on the Original Mets and many players of the early-to-mid 60s detail the personal side of those who wore the pinstripes in Queens in both the Polo Grounds and Shea Stadium. Conversations with family members of deceased Mets players are sure to charm the reader ... as it did the author. About the Author: Pre-dating the Mets by seven years, BILL SULLIVAN followed Casey Stengel's expansion team over his transistor radio as a 6-year-old in upstate New York. He would have tuned in sooner but the Mets didn't play ball until April 1962. Sullivan lived in Schenectady, NY, a Frank Thomas home run from the Little League stadium where future Met Billy Connors played for the hometown squad which won the Little League World Series in 1954 and finished second in 1953. And in 1969, he listened to the Mets clinch the World Series. In detention. As a 14-year-old

Long Before the Miracle: The Making of the New York Mets, Paperback/Bill Sullivan

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