{"id":891,"date":"2008-04-17T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=891"},"modified":"2013-12-01T01:47:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:47:39","slug":"carter-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Carter Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good time last night in New Jersey, where\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/book\"><em>Mets by the Numbers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was sucked into the awesome gravitational pull of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/carter-gary\">Gary Carter,<\/a>\u00a0whose new book pictured here was the featured attraction at Bookends book store.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51unzymR4rL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>In addition to us, Dan Reilly, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Original-Mr-Met-Remembers\/Dan-Reilly\/e\/9780595700820\/?itm=1\" target=\"_blank\">original Mr. Met,<\/a>\u00a0was selling\/signing his book as was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/My-Memories-as-a-Brooklyn-Dodger\/George-Shuba\/e\/9780615152745\/?itm=1\" target=\"_blank\">George \u201cShotgun\u201d Shuba<\/a>, the ex-Brooklyn Dodger and Montreal teammate of Jackie Robinson. Both Dan \u2014 who was a Shea ticket salesman picked to become the first live-action costumed mascot and knows that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/kranepool-ed\">Ed Kranepool<\/a>\u00a0was originally assigned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/21\">No. 21<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and George were great, and we all owe one to Gary Carter for being Macy&#8217;s to our Spencer&#8217;s Gifts. I also got to meet longtime MBTN contributor Gordon for the first time after years of exchanged scorecards and emails.<\/p>\n<p>After the crowd thinned out some we had a chance to make a gift of our book to Gary, who just as you might expect, was polite and charming and promised to read it. You can catch up to Gary at 12:30pm today at the Barnes &amp; Noble at 46th\u00a0&amp; 5th\u00a0Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the MBTN World Tour continues with a stop in my backyard,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordbrooklyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Word Books<\/a>\u00a0in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at 7:30 pm. The event includes Spike Vrusho, author of Benchclearing: Baseball\u2019s Greatest Fights &amp; Riots and is moderated by Caryn Rose of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsgrrl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metsgrrl<\/a>. Word is located on Franklin Street at Milton, a short walk form the Greenpoint Ave. stop on the G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a good time last night in New Jersey, where\u00a0Mets by the Numbers\u00a0was sucked into the awesome gravitational pull of\u00a0Gary Carter,\u00a0whose new book pictured here was the featured attraction at Bookends book store. In addition to us, Dan Reilly, the\u00a0original Mr. Met,\u00a0was selling\/signing his book as was\u00a0George \u201cShotgun\u201d Shuba, the ex-Brooklyn Dodger and Montreal teammate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carter Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gary-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}