Ken Samelson has authored or edited scores of baseball books including The Baseball Encyclopedia, Amazing Mets Trivia (with Ross Adell), and Incredible Baseball Stories. A two-time SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) trivia champion, he has also served as associate producer for Mets Extra on WFAN Radio and wrote a monthly quiz for New York Mets Inside Pitch. He made a brief appearance in the ESPN documentary series Once Upon a Time in Queens. Spencer Samelson went to his first Mets game when he was four months old and his favorite player growing up was shortstop Rey Ordonez. He went on to pitch at both Onondaga CC and Manhattanville College, where he was the sports editor of the campus paper, the Touchstone. He has an MBA from Syracuse University and MS from Columbia University. He still plays semipro baseball and is the head freshmen coach at Clarkstown South High School in West Nyack, New York. He has worked as a freelance fact-checker for various sports publishers.
""I love to test my memory and knowledge of my favorite team's storied history and More Amazing Mets Trivia really scratches that itch."" ""I've known Ken Samelson since the late 1980s when he was an associate producer on the Mets pre- and postgame show Mets Extra on WFAN Radio. It was evident then that he was well equipped to write a comprehensive trivia quiz book on all things Mets. Well, with the arrival of More Amazing Mets Trivia now he's written two of them. My only question is whether or not he had to look any of this stuff up. The guess here is that it came right off the top of his head. He's that good. Enjoy!""