Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I retired six years ago after working as a Science/Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for 25 years. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. I have a son Lee who is now 35 years old. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s, especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. I am interested in rock and roll radio. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets.
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Reading Baseball Books for Pleasure at the NYPL Research Library
I decided to take a trip to Manhattan to look at a couple of baseball books at random at the Schwartzman Building of NYPL. There seemed to be more tourists than users of the collection there. The building is certainly a landmark which is of interest to visitors from all over the world. When I went to the reading room, I observed that most of the patrons were using laptops and may not have been accessing the library's resources.
I looked at the following books:
Weeks, J. (2012). Cellar dwellers: The worst teams in baseball history. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
The 1962 Mets were obviously listed
Kurkjian, T., & Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. (2006). Major League baseball hometown heroes: The most outstanding players in baseball history, club by club. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
This was a coffee table book.
Bondy, F. (2014). WHO'S ON WORST?: The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History.
This included Anthony Young who lost 27 games in a row for the Mets in the early 1990s.
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