A Mets book worth reading

[Guest User 362]

I reviewed a book today on the Mets in my weekly column that's worth reading.

Howard

[MFS62]

I'm in the book.
My contributions are in the acknowledgements and an anecdoteis on page 175. Unfortunately, they attribute it to me, and it is one of the recollections of that year that I didn't share with the co-writer. I related a lot of other stuff to him.

No wonder its a great book.

Later

[Guest User 362]

MFS62 wrote: I'm in the book. My contributions are in the acknowledgements and an anecdoteis on page 175. Unfortunately, they attribute it to me, and it is one of the recollections of that year that I didn't share with the co-writer. I related a lot of other stuff to him. No wonder its a great book. Later

Cool. How'd you get all that info on the Mets?

Howard

[seawolf17]

I believe there are other board members (and semi-former board members) in there as well... but I'm pretty sure their review of the book was that it was crap (there were a ton of errors in their articles).

[MFS62]

metbaseball wrote: ="MFS62"]I'm in the book. My contributions are in the acknowledgements and an anecdoteis on page 175. Unfortunately, they attribute it to me, and it is one of the recollections of that year that I didn't share with the co-writer. I related a lot of other stuff to him. No wonder its a great book. Later Cool. How'd you get all that info on the Mets? Howard

By living through it. MFS62 stands for Mets Fan Since 1962.

I ran into the co-author on a general baseball (non team-specific)web site, and started swapping stories about the growing pains of new teams. (He's a Jays fan from Canada) He's also involved with the group that follows Jewish major leaguers and periodically issues baseball cards of them.

When it came time to write the book, he asked my permission to be quoted. He invited me to the signing at Barnes and Noble in New York, but I couldn't make it.

Later

[Zvon]

we should all band together and write a book, all contributing chapters on certain times and memories in Met history.

Hey, Id buy it.
So thats a guarentee that it'll sell.

Ill take the 73 Mets playoffs chapter.
(or season if I end up having the most memories on that, but I was at the 73 playoffs and I remember em like yesterday)

PS: someone else will have to organize and compile and edit and...u get what Im sayin.

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: I believe there are other board members (and semi-former board members) in there as well... but I'm pretty sure their review of the book was that it was crap (there were a ton of errors in their articles).

Different book, I think you are thinking of For Met Fans Only which took an article Scarlett Knight wrote, without permission (or any attribution to the publishing holder which was either KCMets.com or Inside Pitch) and insinuated basically that Diamond Dad and KC are one and the same!