Local Author Gives Mets Fans Something To Cheer About

Newtown author Dr Dana Brand will visit the C.H. Booth Library at 25 Main Street, Tuesday, September 29, at 7 pm, to share his new book, The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan.

Dr Brand was born in New York City in 1954 to a pair of Brooklyn Dodger fans who were heartbroken when their team left New York in 1957. He began his personal love affair with baseball in 1962, the first season of the New York Mets. At school, Dr Brand studied with A. Bartlett Giamatti, the Yale English professor who became the Commissioner of Baseball just five months before his death in 1989. Dr Brand often talked about baseball with Mr Giamatti, who was an inspiration to him.  

In 2007, Dr Brand published Mets Fan, a memoir of his lifelong enthusiasm for baseball and for his team. In The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan, Dr Brand focuses on his love for the now-demolished Shea stadium, and his experiences following the Mets misfortunes since 2006.  

The Last Days of Shea has a foreword written by Mets announcer Gary Cohen and has received advanced praise from Mets announcers Ron Darling and Howie Rose, as well as from former Mets pitcher Jerry Koosman.  

The book signing and author talk is free and open to the public.

Register online at chboothlibrary.org, or by calling the library at 426-4533. Refreshments will be served.