METS FAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TO READ IT!

METS FAN (how and why I
became and remain a Mets
fan)

FOR  SHEA (a eulogy for the
stadium I love)

MR. MET

MEET THE METS
(the song)

LET'S GO METS!
(the cheer)

THE METS LOGO

YANKEE HATRED (why it is
an indispensable part of
being a Mets fan)

1962

MY FIRST GAME
(in 1963, the last weekend
game ever played at the
Polo Grounds)

THE METS IN THE SIXTIES

1969

TOM SEAVER

JERRY KOOSMAN

1973

RUSTY STAUB

1977-82

EDDIE KRANEPOOL

MEETING A MET
(About the time I met Tom
Seaver)

1984

DWIGHT GOODEN

1985

1986: THE BAD GUYS WON?

THE MOST EXCITING METS
GAME EVER
(The Sixth Game of the 1986
NLCS against Houston.)

MARRYING THE RED SOX
(Watching the Sixth Game of
the 1986 World Series with
my wife, a Red Sox fan ...)

MOOKIE WILSON

KEITH HERNANDEZ

DARRYL STRAWBERRY

1987

1988

THE END OF THE EIGHTIES

THE EARLY NINETIES

THE METS AND "SEINFELD"

1997-8

1999

THE SECOND MOST
EXCITING METS GAME EVER
(The Fifth Game of the 1999
NLCS against Atlanta.)

THE METS AND
"FREQUENCY"

2000

2001

THE METS AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE
MILLENIUM

2005

MIKE PIAZZA

DORIS FROM REGO PARK

GOING TO A GAME WITH
MY DAUGHTER

THE CROWD AT SHEA

DIAMOND VISION

THE HOME RUN APPLE

COW-BELL MAN

SEVENTH-INNING STRETCH

THE GUYS WHO WIPE THE
SEATS

BOOING

CURTAIN CALLS

THE METS IN QUEENS

INSIDE BOB MURPHY'S
VOICE

RALPH KINER

HOWIE ROSE

LISTENING TO MIKE AND
THE MAD DOG AS A METS
FAN

STEVE SOMERS

GARY COHEN

2006: GETTING AHEAD

PEDRO MARTINEZ

CARLOS BELTRAN

DAVID WRIGHT

JOSE REYES

PAUL LODUCA

CARLOS DELGADO

2006: LATE SUMMER BLUES

2006: THE CLINCHING

2006: THE HOUR OF THE
WOLF

GOING TO A PLAYOFF
GAME:  GAME 2 OF THE
NLDS

CARDINAL RED

GOING TO A PLAYOFF
GAME:
GAME 6 OF THE NLCS

THE END OF THE 2006
SEASON

THE POINT OF BASEBALL

FOLLOWING BASEBALL

BASEBALL AND THE LIFE
OF THE MIND: MEMORIES
OF BART GIAMATTI

WHY DO WE DO THIS TO
OURSELVES?

THE OFFSEASON

METS FANS ARE GEEKS:
FORUMWORLD AND
BLOGOSPHERE

THE RETURN OF BASEBALL

GROUNDBREAKING
CEREMONIES FOR CITIFIELD
THE METS IN THE FUTURE
My name is Dana Brand and I've written
a book called Mets Fan.  

My book is for all of us.  



I write about why we are Mets fans and why we
are not Yankee fans.  

I write about what the players mean to us.  

I write about the good years and the bad years.  

I write about what we feel when we
go to Citifield, and see Mr. Met, when we
see our logo, sing our song, or cheer for
our team.

I write about what we feel when we bring our kids
to a
game.  Or when we watch the most important
games in Mets history with the people we love.

I write about what the Mets are in our lives, about
how beautiful baseball is and how wonderful,
exciting, sad, and horrible it can be.

I am a Professor of English and American
Literature at Hofstra University.  I got my Ph.D.
from Yale where I studied with A. Bartlett
Giamatti, with whom I often discussed baseball.

Don’t worry.   I’m not going to compare Jerry
Manuel to Captain Ahab.  

But I want to offer you and other Mets fans the
kind of book about the Mets you deserve.

You deserve something better than the dopey
books that get thrown together
for people who can’t think of what to
buy somebody for Father’s Day.

You deserve a book that's well-written and funny.

My book has 81 short pieces about different
aspects of being a Mets fan.

It explains what it is actually like to bleed blue and
orange.

You will understand me and I hope that fans of all
baseball teams will be able to understand what I
am writing about.

Please take a look at my sample pieces and please
take a look at the table of contents to the right.  If
you'd like to know about my media appearances,
readings, book signings, etc. please keep checking
back here, or put your e-mail address on my
mailing list

For a while, I had a guestbook, but I had to close it
because of spambots.  If you want to see what
people said about my sample pieces before I had
to close up, please check out my guestbook

Enjoy.  Thank you for visiting my site.  Please tell
your friends about it.  And LETS GO METS!
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READ THE REVIEWS!
                (Click on the links to read the entire review.)

From Mark Herrmann in Newsday:
"A happy book ... a labor of love.... If you're a
Mets fan, you know what he's talking about."

From Matt Cerrone of Mets Blog:
"Dana’s book is a must read, and will make a
great holiday gift…(the) essays are equal parts
nostalgia, comedy and insight."

From The Sports Collector's Digest:
"Great baseball writing that will delight Mets
fans and everyone who enjoys baseball."

From Mark Healey of Gotham Baseball
Magazine:  "If you are a Mets fan, buy this
book.  Buy it for other Mets fans.  Share it with
any Met fan you meet in the street, in a bar, or at
the ballpark.  It's that good of a read."  

From Greg Prince at Faith and Fear in
Flushing: “This is a book for us. It's a book for
Mets fans. It's a book we deserve. It's a book we
will absorb through our pores. This is our book.
It's about time we got one like this…Dana Brand
is an authentic Mets fan and an authentic
wordsmith."

From Anthony De Rosa at Hotfoot
"I have not been able to put it down.  Dana
Brand's book "Mets Fan" is a great, heartfelt
collection of essays on the things that matter most
to Mets Fans."

From Mike Steffanos at Mike's Mets:
“[Mets Fan]  has received universal praise
around the Mets blogosphere.   A terrific book …
smart and well-written, … but also accessible
and real. Dana speaks to the simple truths of
what it means to be a fan of this amazin' club. In
writing about his own experience he touches on
things that are universal to most of us.  He
speaks to feelings that only true Mets fans can
understand.”

From Jason Maoz at The Jewish Press:
"The best exploration yet written about what it
means to be a Mets fan."

From Steve Keane of The Eddie Kranepool
Society:  "Dana Brand has written THE book
about us Mets fans and it should be mandatory in
any Mets fan's library."

From Dan Ziegler of Lone Star Mets
"I keep reading the great Dana Brand's genius,
that I believe defines all real Mets fans."

Ralph McIntyre in Aethlon: The Journal of
Sports Literature:  "The prose ... soars, [it is]
lyrically satisfying and splendidly cadenced ... it
glows with the warmth of classic baseball writing.
...The essays are witty, brief, and cutting with a
Seinfeld-esque feel ...This is not sportswriting but
rather the exploration into the import of what
happens to a person who becomes a fan, the
psychology of loyalty, the necessary balance that
it requires between praise and criticism, and
most endearingly here, the savage cut of
disappointment, the telling of which is always
more fascinating than tales of championship
seasons and Hall of Fame players.  This is a
wonderful read - a tonic revelation of ... how in
the end the fan is something higher and finer
than those who simply follow sports."

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To read about the 9/23/07 book launch party for
METS FAN at Mo Pitkin's in Greenwich Village,
click here.
To read my review of Mathematically Alive, the
great, new award-winning documentary about
Mets fans, click here.

        LISTEN TO THESE INTERVIEWS WITH ME!
You can e-mail me at danaabrand@yahoo.com.  I'd be
happy to come and speak at your library, school, bookstore,
or organization, and of course I'd be happy to be on your
show or podcast.  Scroll down to find links to some of my
radio appearances.  Click here to read about all past and
future METS FAN events and appearances.
And click here to see an online video of my talk and reading
at the Chappaqua Library.
Listen to the original long version of  "Meet the Mets"
The story of METS FAN
began On August 28, 2005,
when I published a column
in Newsday entitled "If You
Prick A Mets Fan, He
Bleeds Blue and Orange."  
The column was an
enormous hit with Mets
fans and was posted on
over 20 Mets blogs and
linked to by many
publications.  Its success
convinced me that the
world was ready for an
ENTIRE BOOK about being
a Mets fan.
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE NEW YORK METS:
A Conference at Hofstra University
Chaired by Professors Dana Brand and Richard Puerzer
Stay tuned for details
1969
To Honor the 40th
Anniversary of the
Greatest Baseball Miracle
of All Time, please enjoy
this essay from Mets
Fan
The Citi Field Bookshelf

Mets fans are literate people and they don't have enough good books to read.  To do
what I can to encourage good books about the Mets, I'm going to be listing links to
what I think are good recent books about the Mets.  The links are to websites, but I will
eventually put up reviews as well.  I will rename this feature as soon as I learn that they
will be selling Mets books at Citi Field.  The books are listed alphabetically by author.
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OF SHEA