I am very happy to announce that my new book, The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan has been officially released. It is in stock and can be purchased right now at Amazon (for $11.53) and Barnes and Noble and it will be at all other online sources and in bookstores in the next few days.
If you visit my website (clink on the link above), you can learn about the book, read samples, and see enthusiastic blurbs from Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, Howie Rose, Jerry Koosman, Jonathan Lethem, and Phillip Lopate . I know that right now the Mets are pretty roughed up, but my book may bring you back in contact with the eternal Mets, the bizarre baseball franchise that continues to receive the passionate loyalty of millions. I hope the book also brings you back to the sounds, sights, and cramped seats of Shea, a place that we will always miss and mourn, however much we enjoy the better food, legroom, and architecture of the new place.
If you want to hear me read or be interviewed, please keep an eye on my Bulletin Board. Please also keep your ears open for the upcoming official announcement of a conference I will chair in April 2012, along with Professor Richard Puerzer and under the auspices of the Hofstra Cultural Center, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets.
I also look forward to meeting many of you at the Gary, Keith, and Ron Main Event on October 3, sponsored by the announcers’ charitable foundation “Pitch In for a Good Cause,” run by Lynn Cohen. This end-of-the-year bash (which includes a trip to the warning track) promises to be the best and biggest gathering of the truest Mets diehards ever. If you still care deeply about the Mets, you owe it to yourself to be there.
If you’d like to contact me for any reason (to do an interview, get a signed and inscribed book for somebody, just say hi, etc.) please feel free to e-mail me at danaabrand@cs.com.
Thank you and, in spite of everything, Let’s Go Mets,
Dana
