Mets Essential: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan

by Matthew Silverman

A one-stop record containing everything Met fans want to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, and photos.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 30, 2007

About the author

Author of
Out of a Dog's Mouth: A Novel (under pseudonym McNally Berry)
Shea Stadium Remembered
One-Year Dynasty
Swinging '73
Best Mets
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100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die
New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History
Mets Essential
Baseball Miscellany
--Co-Author of
Mets by the Numbers
Red Sox by the Numbers
Cubs by the Numbers
--Former associate publisher at Total Sports Publishing
--Managing editor of Total Baseball, Total Football and ESPN Baseball and Pro Football Encyclopedias

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would have liked to give this book 3 stars... the author obviously has been a dedicated and knowledgeable fan of the Mets for a long time and his sense of their history and his opinions are enjoyable parts of the book. And he gets extra points for a clear disdain for the Yankees. However, he spends very little time on the 2000 World Series... I'm sure it's due to trying to bury the memory of that particular Fall Classic. But I would've liked several more pages on that at least. And there is little mention at all of the Clemens/Piazza drama. That's another big miss. There are also parts of book that bog down in the cardinal sin of baseball writing....dry, lifeless, headspinning text of play by play rehashing that leaves the reader yawning and checking out emotionally.

[Ron Kaplan]

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