Metropolitans – NY Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team

Andy Gittlitz is an organizer and author of Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team . It looks at the way class and politics and baseball intersect with the story of baseball and of the Mets baseball franchise. The book blends cultural criticism with social and labor history to argue that New York City baseball has long served as a battleground for class struggle, popular power, and control over people’s leisure time. He was at book signings in Troy and Albany earlier this week. He talks to Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.