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“Rollicking…Led by the hedonistic slinger Joe Namath, the Jets shocked the football world with their Super Bowl III upset of the Baltimore Colts in 1969. That autumn, the once-risible Mets won the World Series. The Knicks capped off one of the greatest sports seasons any city had ever enjoyed when they took the N.B.A. title the following spring.” --New York Times Book Review“Sean Deveney . . . recaptures the era’s lunatic euphoria and unpredictable political impact in Fun City.” --New York Times “This impressively researched history serves as a vivid portrait of the two men’s valiant, if fruitless, quest for greatness in a perpetually unforgiving city.”—Publishers Weekly“Vividly chronicling the social, racial, and political upheaval of New York City in the 1960s, Deveney . . . traces the intersecting rise of the Jets (football), Mets (baseball), and the Knicks (basketball) over New York’s “establishment” teams: the Giants (football) and the Yankees (baseball). . . . This dense, objective, unflinching, and thorough narrative doesn’t just paint a picture of New York in the 1960s. The work is steeped in the headlines. . . . [F]ans of New York sports teams will feel viscerally transported.” –Library Journal “Deveney combines his two big subjects neatly. . . . [T]here is plenty here of interest to sports fans and followers of urban politics.” -Booklist"Sean Deveney deftly details the fan euphoria related to the emergence of first-time world champions against the backdrop of tumultuous events that affected all New Yorkers."—Jeff Miller, author of Going Long: The Wild Ten Year Saga of the Renegade American Football League in the Words of Those Who Lived It"Fun City is a rollicking, insightful look back at an incredible time in New York history. From Joe Namath to John Lindsay, Mickey Mantle to Muhammad Ali and all the Amazin' Mets, here is a story that will entertain and astonish you, even if you lived through it."—Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd"I remember New York in the late 1960s and early 1970--a dreamland of seediness, magnificent in its plunge toward the abyss. Somehow against all odds its professional teams conjured magic. Long-haired Joe Namath, wounded Willis Reed, and their gangs of Jets and Knicks captured the soul of the times. It could have happened only in New York. Sean Deveney recaptures the moment in vivid detail. I felt younger again just reading Fun City."—Randy Roberts, co-author of Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter“Looking for a good pool/beach book? Fun City . . . [is] about the roiling stew of 1960s NYC politics (emphasis on John Lindsay), mixed with the radical changes in the city’s sports scene (emphasis on Sonny Werblin’s Jets and Joe Namath).”—Phil Mushnick, New York Post

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About the Author

Sean Deveney has been a writer and editor at Sporting News since 1999, covering all aspects of sports and appeared as a guest on ESPN, Comcast Sports, CNN, Fox News, CBS, and MSNBC. He has helped author four books, including The Original Curse and Before Wrigley Became Wrigley.

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Product details

Hardcover: 376 pages

Publisher: Sports Publishing (October 6, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 161321815X

ISBN-13: 978-1613218150

Product Dimensions:

6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

23 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#964,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I lived in NYC /Westchester / Nassau County during this time. The book brought back memories and gave me a better understanding of that era as well as my life I found the book easy to read as well as entertaining. The author gets to the point of each topic. I found the book humorous. Most of all, what I thought was going on with NYC wasn't what was really going on. Things weren't what I thought they were. Ia a sense this book is a catharsis A must read !

"Fun City" was a great book about New York in the late 60's. The book threads through the Championship seasons of the Jets, Mets and Knicks as well as the mayorship of John Lindsay. Highly recommended

even though I was a teenager during this time and lived through it, I do not remember alot of what went on during the early sixties. very informative and entertaining. I am a yankee fan but never a jets or ny giant fan.

Brought me back to those days. Good informative account of the 60's and 70's in NYC sports and politics. Enjoyed it.

Very interesting stuff about New York politics and sports. Definitely worth reading.

I was a very young child, but I remember women everywhere going crazy over Joe Namath. I guess this book brought back much of my youth.

"Fun City" ends with a great quote from famed New York writer Jimmy Breslin from 1969, "When you live in fires and funerals and strikes and rats and crowds and people screaming in the night, sports is the only thing that makes any sense."Following the rise of liberal Republican mayor John Lindsay, Alabama star QB Joe Namath landing with the upstart Jets of the AFL, Tom Seaver and the Mets, and the rise of New York Knicks, culminating with all three of those franchises winning a championship in an 18-month period of of January, 1969 to mid-1970, "Fun City" provides a fascinating look at the anti-establishment ethos of the mid to late 1960s in New York.The New York football Giants were in decline in the same period, as were the Yankees, who were eventually sold to "corporate" CBS. And after the lengthy Robert Wagner Mayoral era, John Lindsay, a blueblood Upper East side councilman, won the New York mayoral election in 1965. New York was indeed ready for "fun."The book transports the reader back to these heady days of New York City from Namath's fur coat on the sidelines and his nightclubbing antics to Lindsay's unpreparedness for a monster snowstorm to strikes and protests.The reader learns of the many knee surgeries of Namath before and during his Jets career, how the Mets and Shea Stadium rose from the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Knicks latest incarnation of Madison Square Garden at 50th and 8th that opened in 1968. We hear of the passion of the new Mets fans from sportswriter Robert Lipsyte: "...The Metophile is a dreamer. He believes that one day he will punch that arrogant foreman at the plant square on his fat nose; that he will get the last word with his foie; that he will win the Irish sweepstakes; that the Mets will start a winning streak.." And we see the courage of Joe Namath in the 1968 AFL Championship game again, fighting off hits from Ben Davidson and Ike Lassiter, and a concussion, to propel his team to victory into Super Bowl III, perhaps the greatest sports upset ever.But the book is not just about the teams and their quests for championships; it's about the change in the city (and country) from massive societal change to the war in Vietnam. Yet this tale is all intertwined from Knicks players attending a "Moratorium Day" protest in Cincinnati on October 15, 1969,to Tom Seaver's arrival the same day to Shea Stadium, where he was informed by fellow pitcher Tug McGraw that some of Seaver's comments were sensationalized on a related pamphlet being handed outside the stadium. (Seaver nevertheless put the distraction aside to pitch a 10-inning complete game victory in Game 4 of the World Series that day, giving his team a 3-1 lead.)My own novel, "The Naive Guys," concludes in the New York of June, 1994, with both the hockey Rangers and basketball Knicks striving for championships. As great as that time was, Deveney's world seems a hell of a lot more fun:-)"Fun City," so named for Lindsay's description of the City, is an excellent, fun, exhilarating read. It is well worth the investment of your time for a magical trip back to the New York of the past, but not long past. Perhaps Mr. Deveney will have to work on a sequel of sorts in the mid teens of the 2010s?

Two stories and several half-stories do not make a connected book. Some interesting anecdotes but no real unified tale. I expected moreThe two stories are a decent story about John Lindsay and his mayoralty's 1st term, how he got the job and what he tried to do. The other is about the Jets in the mid-60's during the Werblin era. Half-stories are of the Knicks and the Mets.But it wasn't the sports teams that got Lindsay re-elected, it was the lack of any real opposition and white gratitude that there were no major NY riots in the 60s. Deveney pretty much admits that.I grew up in that era too, affected by the massive teacher's strike in Fall, 1968.

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