Meet FRED FROM FRESH MEADOWS.
As a kid, Fred was at Madison Square Garden for the “Here Comes Willis!” game—that is, the one where Willis Reed got stuck in traffic and didn’t show up ‘til the second quarter. In high school, he stayed up late the night before the SATs because of a big Knicks game on the West Coast; in law school, he chose where to live on the basis of which neighborhood had a cable TV package with Knicks telecasts; and, as a (in theory) mature adult, settled on an apartment in Manhattan based, in part, on proximity to Madison Square Garden.
In short, Fred is representative of your ordinary irrational Knicks fan—and FRED FROM FRESH MEADOWS: A Knicks Memoir is his (hopefully colorful) story covering six decades.