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A.M. Gittlitz

Biography

A.M. Gittlitz

A.M. Gittlitz is an organizer and writer focusing on counterculture and radical politics. He is the author of I WANT TO BELIEVE: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism and METROPOLITANS: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team, and is co-host of the podcast "This Wreckage." He lives in Ridgewood, Queens, but can be often found Tuesday nights at the Vegan City food stand at Citi Field.

A.M. Gittlitz

Books by A.M. Gittlitz

Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
by A.M. Gittlitz - History, Nonfiction, Sports

METROPOLITANS is for Mets fans, New York partisans, and everyone interested in the Mobius strip dynamic of sports and politics, the history of the national game, or the beautiful contradiction of baseball itself: a middle-class game owned by billionaires, in which the players --- like the spectators --- look to traverse the diamond and ultimately safely escape its many dangers. Along the way, A.M. Gittlitz reintroduces us to an eccentric cast of Metsian characters: Joan Payson, the first woman to buy a Major League Baseball team; a young Tom Seaver with an interest in progressive politics; and the contentious but beloved Mike Piazza. Gittlitz leads us through baseball’s amateur beginnings to the Mets’ first heady World Series on the heels of the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in which many Mets players participated.