ART SHAMSKY: Still Amazin’

Send us Fan MailThe story of the 1969 New York Mets, the Amazin’ Mets, has been told for more than five decades.  It will no doubt be told for decades to come.  Art Shamsky has experienced it as a player and an author, playing a key role as a left handed hitter and outfielder in 1969 and then hitting the keys to write several books about the Mets.  His latest is “Mets Stories I Only Tell My Friends.”  Art Shamsky had a long career in baseball.  But his career and his life can be divided up into three categories: before 1969, 1969 and after 1969. Amazin’.