The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York. It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere. But their greatness on the field was nearly eclipsed by how bad they were off it.
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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best [Book]
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Mookie Wilson New York Mets 1986 World Series Champions Bobblehead
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Mookie by Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman, Keith Hernandez - foreword
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Mookie Wilson - Wikipedia
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Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words
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CardCorner: 1986 Topps Mookie Wilson
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OTD 1986: A World Series Comeback for the Ages - Metsmerized Online
They said it was the ?Curse of the Bambino.? They said ?the bad guys won.? Now one of baseball?s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie
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Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets
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How '86 Mets hero Mookie Wilson came to embrace his place in
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