Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million.
John Harper covered the Mets for the New York Post from 1988 to 1992 before joining the Daily News, where he is a sports columnist..
He is the author of five baseball books, including High and Tight: The Rise and Fall of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.
Klapisch has worked at the New York Post and the New York Daily News and is a regular contributor to ESPN.com.
Bob Klapisch is a sports columnist covering major-league baseball for The Record.
From the sex scandals that plagued the club in Florida to the puritanical, no-booze rules of manager Jeff Torborg, from bad behavior on road trips to the downright ornery practical jokes that big boys play, The Worst Team Money Could Buy is a grand-slam classic.
Veteran newspapermen Bob Klapisch and John Harper reveal the extraordinary inside story of the Mets\' decline and fall--with the sort of detail and uncensored quotes that never run in a family newspaper.
The 1992 New York Mets never made it to Cooperstown, however.
With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another championship seemed a mere formality.
Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million
