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Once upon a time, twenty-four grown men would play baseball together, eat together, carouse together, and brawl together Alas, those hard-partying warriors have been replaced by GameBoy-obsessed, laptop-carrying, corporate soldiers who would rather punch a clock than a drinking buddy. But it wasn't always this way ...

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankess were the second-best team in New York. So it was in 1986, when the New York Mets -- the last of baseball's live-like-rock-star teams -- won the World Series and captured the hearts (and other select body parts) of fans everywhere.

But their greatness on the field was nearly eclipsed by how bad they were off it. Led by the indomitable Keith Hernandez and the young dynamic duo of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, along with the gallant Scum Bunch, the Amazin's won 108 regular-season games, while leaving a wide trail of wreckage in their wake -- hotel rooms, charter planes, a bar in Houston, and most famously Bill Buckner and the eternally cursed Boston Red Sox. With an unforgettable cast of characters -- Doc, Straw, the Kid, Nails, Mex, and manager Davey Johnson (as well as innumerable groupies) -- The Bad Guys Won immortalizes baseball's last great wild bunch of explores what could have been, what should have been, and thanks to a tragic dismantling of the club, what never was.

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As a bouncer in a biker bar and a participant in dozens of fights, Peyton Quinn knows the difference between fighting fact and fantasy The result is a unique guide to self-defense that can save your ass in places where brawling is quick, dirty and very violent..
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In this fast paced, exciting card game, you are a Kung Fu Master, ready to battle all who stand against you! Attack with devastating kicks and punches! Use amazing Attack Enhancement to turn your boring attacks into Flipping, Flying, Spinning, Running Up the Wall Attacks. Keep one step ahead of your foes with your mastery of Kung Fu stances. Bust out any one of a number of weapons, from the deadly sword and nunchucks to the unlikely chair and table. Stop even the most powerful attacks with your amazing balance and your excellent blocks..
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"WHY," mourned "Red" Kane, "why don't somethin ever happen?"

"Knock wood quick," urged "Kansas" Casey, the deputy sheriff, "or somethin'll happen to you maybe."

"Huh!" snorted Red Kane the skeptic, "I wouldn't mind. Anythin' for a change. A earthquake, or, if you'd have a fit even, it'd help. I ain't particular D'jever have fits, Kansas?" he added hopefully

"Shore I never," denied the indignant Kansas. "You talk like I was a cat or somethin."

"Yuh might be somethin lots worse. Cats! Why, Kansas, cats is real people an wide between the eyes. I dunno but what cats is most as sensible as mules."

"Well, I ain't no cat, an don't you forget it!" Casey's grin belied his tone.

"Alla same, I wish somethin'd happen." Red Kane was not losing sight of the main issue.

"Why don't yuh get drunk?" suggested Kansas.

"Don't wanna get drunk. Dunno why, neither. S'funny."

"Must a got religion like Tommy Mull up at Cutter. But Tommy jumped in again with a splash that near drownded him, an so will you. They all do."

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