FLUSHING FEVER--Preview of the Back Cover

FLUSHING FEVER
It was the summer of ’06 and Flushing Fever was in the air…
but could America’s favorite underdogs win the Championship?
It would all come downto one pitch.

Join historian, poet, and creator of the popular baseball blog AMAZINE,
Evan T. Pritchard as he takes you on a game by game journey into the
heart of one of the most amazing and puzzling seasons by any team in
sports history. It is the story of the unforgettable 2006 New York Mets.
Where did they come from?Why were they so successful? Why did they
collapse at the end?

In this humorous and yet factual account by Flushing University’s
Professor Emeritus, we find out that the success of the quirky
and lovable Mets was dependent not only on a genius named Omar Minaya,
but on a scraggly goatee, a ham and cheese sandwich, a divorce trial,
a tongue that kept sticking out, a Metallica song, a ghost from
the Boston Braves, a miraculous birth, and an Achilles’ heel that
wouldn’t heal. Add to that an aversion to rain, a wonderboy named
Maine, and bloggers going insane, and you have the formula for a
great American baseball saga, one that has yet to be told in all
its glory and pathos.

In this book, you will find a ton of weird stats,and amazing trivia
not published anywhere else,(except at Amazine and Flushing University).
For example, did you know the Mets at times led the major leagues in
Scoring Efficiency? In winning percentage in the first two weeks of all
calendar months combined? In Runs Margins Ratios (moreruns than
opponents?) In grand slams in July? In percentage of divisional wins?
That Mota led the league in wins per innings pitched? Or that Reyes
just missed being only the second player in a Met uniform to get 200
hits, with more triples than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Are you ready
for Totally Intangible Stats such as the “Hit With Authority Index,”
the “Two Out Madness Index,” or “The Lucky Shower Award?”

Flushing Fever celebrates the game of baseball as an individual subjective experience, and a communal religious ritual, with an eye for the ethnic details of the American landscape, in the tradition of W.P. Kinsella, George Vecsey, and Bart Giamatti. One thing is for sure, you will never see the game of baseball the same way again.

Coming Soon!
ebook $12.50 paperback $24.95 US
Flushing University Press www.flushinguniversity.com an imprint of Brandywine New Media ISBN 978-1-423-4431-4
Or write Evan Pritchard at PO Box 1028 Woodstock, NY 12498