I want to thank everyone who came out on March 18 for the Mets talk at the New York Public Library Grand Central Branch in Manhattan. Thanks first of all to Brian Wright for setting it all up. Brian, the author of Mets in 10s, also set up a table to share at the Queens Baseball Convention in January. Poor guy was born the year after the Mets won their last World Series, but he really knows his stuff and is very good at running events. And, truly, it’s great to have another writer there to help draw more people and to make it more fun. And Brian’s girlfriend Natalie to not only helped carry the books to the library, but she helped him drive to Washington, D.C. in time for work the next morning!
Thanks, of course, to the nice crowd who came and wanted to know about Shea Stadium Remembered. Special thanks to my sister Marie and my nephew and godson, Nick Marich, who took the train in from the burbs and went to dinner with me afterward at Pershing’s. And a photographer named Drew became the first person to tell me he is buying one of my books because of the Jets—there’s actually a lot about the Jets, and a surprising amount about the Yankees, not to mention Robert Moses, Walter O’Malley, and a team called the Metropolitans.