FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 13, 2007
PMA PLACES STEVEN TRAVERS'
THE LAST MIRACLE: 1969 AMAZIN' METS
WITH GENE BRISSIE OF THE
GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS
Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., announces the sale of World English Rights to The Last Miracle: 1969 Amazin' Mets by Steven Travers, due for release in March 2009, to Gene Brissie of The Globe Pequot Press, in a nice deal. PMA manages First Serial and Film Rights to this title.
Man has engaged in athletic competition at least since the ancient Greeks. Baseball has been played, according to legend, since Abner Doubleday invented it at Cooperstown, New York in 1839. Through the travail of ages, in the entire history of sports, the 1969 "Amazin' Mets" remains the single most impossible, unbelievable, improbable and wonderful sports story of all times.
This book tells the tale of that incredible spring, summer and fall, but it does much more than simply recount how the worst sports franchise ever ascended to the very heights of greatness in a few short months. The Last Miracle is the story of tumultuous times: the 1960s. Amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Mets remained the last, best hope of a city on the verge of bankruptcy. Through the lens of time we now can view them as a metaphor for a changing America, and in light of the Big Apple's phoenix-like comeback over the years, the catapult for this battered-yet-unbowed Metropolis. Somehow, while the Mets became the mods of baseball, the "new breed" athlete, Tom Seaver and his teammates are viewed herein as the final symbols of an innocent age; an age when the greatest icons in American culture—New York sports heroes—mounted the stage in awesome splendor; before Watergate, before free agency, before the mercenaries took over.
Steven Travers is a USC graduate and ex-professional baseball player. He is the author of the best-selling Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, nominated for a Casey Award. He is also the author of The USC Trojans: College Football's All-Time Greatest Dynasty (a National Book Network "top 100 seller"); One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game That Changed a Nation, subject of a documentary and major motion picture. Steve was a columnist for StreetZebra magazine in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Examiner. Travers coached baseball at USC, Cal-Berkeley and in Europe; attended law school, served in the Army, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California. He has a daughter, Elizabeth Travers, and resides in California.
For more information, contact Peter Miller, PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. at 212.929.1222 or
