This book is dedicated to my wife, Alice Lesch Kelly, an original Mets fan and fellow native New Yorker, who always knows how to help make Mike and Kate better detectives and the Ballpark Mysteries more mysterious.

—D.A.K.

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”

—Yogi Berra, an eighteen-time MLB All-Star, and player, manager, and coach over the years of both the New York Yankees and New York Mets