(PHOTO: Rye resident and former Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca)
Long suffering Mets and Brooklyn Dodger fans will gather at the Rye Free Reading Room on Thursday, May 6, 7:00pm – 8:00pm in the Community Meeting Room to meet Joshua Prager, author of The Echoing Green and Ralph Branca, Rye resident and former Brooklyn Dodger pitcher.
Prager is a Wall Street Journal writer who has penned The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World. Branca is a Rye resident and lives at the Westchester Country Club.
The program will be introduced by Dr. Dana Brand, author of The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan.
Counseling will be available after the program to all suffering sports fans.
