Matt Silverman is the author of Swinging ’73: Baseball’s Wildest Season, New York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History, Mets Essential, 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, and Best Mets: Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York’s Most Agonizingly Amazin’ Team. He served as associate publisher for Total Sports Publishing, working with partners Major League Baseball and Sports Illustrated. A longtime member of the Society of Baseball Research, he was lead writer, editor, and spokesman for Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia. Profiled in the New York Times, Silverman has been interviewed on ESPN radio, NPR, Sports Net New York, and numerous other programs and publications. He blogs regularly at MetSilverman.com and lives with his family in High Falls, New York.
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Praise for Swinging ’73: Baseball’s Wildest Season by Matthew Silverman
"A fantastic ode to a year that began with the Yankees wife-swap and ended with the Mets’ second miracle."
—New York Post
"Silverman sets his sights on one of the sport’s greatest, most dramatic, and colorful seasons ever, a go-go moment in pop-cultural time. ... Swinging ’73 is a sharp, finely detailed, engrossingly entertaining snapshot of a country and its national pastime, both grooving along—though not always smoothly—to the beat of a new era."
—American Profile
"Swinging ’73 chronicles the ups and downs, the ins and outs of one of pro baseball’s most exciting years ever, and it does it in casual, breezy style. .. [A]nyone who enjoys immersing themselves in the annals of baseball lore will find Swinging ’73 to be the perfect kind of read: a fastball right down the plate."
—Bleacher Report
"One of the most entertaining new baseball books of the spring."
—Hardball Times