Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

This is not a print-on-demand or facsimile copy but a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of $2.95 by Viking Press, 625 Madison Ave., New York 22, NY. It contains Viking's First Edition tag line, " First Published by Viking in 1963." Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 63-12358. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? is a book written by journalist Jimmy Breslin chronicling the 1962 New York Mets first season as an expansion team. The title of the book supposedly came from a remark made by Mets manager Casey Stengel expressing his frustration over the team's spectacular ineptitude. James Earle Breslin (1928 - 2017) was an American journalist and author. He wrote a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition. He wrote numerous novels, and columns of his appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City.