Rob Glaser Is Racing Upstream

摘要

As a boy growing up in the middle-class New York suburb of Yonkers, Robert Glaser was a rabid New York Mets fan. His home was just five miles from Yankee Stadium, but Glaser chose to take a one-hour subway ride to Shea Stadium to watch the ragtag Miracle Mets, who shocked the sporting world by winning the 1969 World Series. A numbers whiz who memorized large sections of the 3,000-page Baseball Encyclopedia, the young Glaser could instantly recite the number of bases Bud Harrelson stole or the number of home runs Tommy Agee crushed. When anyone asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, Glaser would say he planned to replace Mets announcer Lindsey Nelson. "Robert always liked the underdog," says his mother, Barbara.