About the Author

MATTHEW SILVERMAN has written several books on the Mets, including 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, Mets Essential, Shea Goodbye (with Keith Hernandez), and Mets by the Numbers (with Jon Springer) and served as a co-editor on the Maple Street Press Mets Annual. He has also been the managing editor for Total Baseball, Total Football, The ESPN Football Encyclopedia, and as associate editor for The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. He lives in High Falls, New York. Ken Samelson is a freelance book editor and writer who grew up in the Bronx the son of a Giants fan mom and Yankees fan dad. He was a regular contributor to New York Mets Inside Pitch for 11 years and also served as an associate producer for Mets Extra on WFAN Radio from 1987 to 1990. The co-author of Amazing Mets Trivia, The Great All-Time Baseball Record Book, The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia Quiz Book, and The Baseball Encyclopedia (Macmillan), he lives in Larchmont, New York. His two children, Spencer and Lena, are not surprisingly both huge Mets fans.