Want to know the history of the Mets by uniform number from 1962-2007? Mets by the Numbers (2008) is the book for you! The book is a collaboration between Jon Springer, mastermind behind the Mets by the Numbers website that’s graced the internet for the past decade, and Matt Silverman who’s worked on several books about the Mets.
The book is an odyssey through Mets history uniform numbers, focusing on the best players to wear each uniform and many of the worst. Sidebars rank the best performances in various statistical categories and the idiosyncrasies of how players chose there numbers and sometimes how the numbers chose them. This is quick, easy and fun read and also a good reference that should be on the shelf in every public library in the Tri-State area. In Boston, not so much (I had to special order my copy through Brookline Booksmith).
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