Chris Donnelly is the author of two previous books that take a detailed look at New York City baseball in the late twentieth century: Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul (Nebraska, 2019) and Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball (Nebraska, 2023).
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Acknowledgments 1. Jelly-Legged Him 2. Not Any Nastier 3. Square in the Back 4. A Viable Man 5. "I Play Baseball" 6. Mr. Mojo Risin' 7. Smell of the Stadium 8. Until Someone Beats Us 9. Joy in Metsville 10. Up the Middle Notes Bibliography Index
"Many of us of a certain age believed we'd never see a Subway Series as our fathers and grandfathers had, and then, amazingly, we did. In the final piece of Chris Donnelly's lyrical trilogy detailing New York's late-century baseball renaissance, he brings us back to those wonderful years when the dream became, first, possible and, ultimately, real. In his hands Get Your Tokens Ready is a masterful story told by a master storyteller."-Mike Vaccaro, sports columnist for the New York Post and author of 1941-The Greatest Year in Sports "When George Steinbrenner, sports talk radio, and the back pages were king, baseball was at its best. Chris Donnelly masterfully transports us back to one of the wildest rides in the sport's history, when the Mets and Yankees shaped a generation of fans at the center of the baseball universe."-Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic and author of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess