A nice story that got lost in Santanamania, and since I am on an aeroplane we can let @mediagoon sleep in.
Gold’s newsletter, which cost 45 cents for a half-year’s subscription, was distributed to about 100 people. He signed up his friends and relatives, and posted a notice in Sport magazine. Alan Blum included a note with his payment. It said, “Here’s my 45 cents — now buy yourself a dictionary.”
More subscribed after Stan Fischler wrote about Met Maze for The New York Journal-American. Fischler understood what Gold was going through. He, too, had written a newsletter as a youngster (about hockey, not baseball), and he was also a rabid and bereft Dodgers fan.
via Following the Inept Mets of 1962 With a Newsletter – NYTimes.com.