The Amazin' Avenue Annual 2011 Is Available For Pre-Order! Plus: Exclusive 35% Off Coupon Code!
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Eric Simon
Feb 23, 2011, 8:24:14 PM2/23/11
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Welcome, newsletter subscribers! After a long winter of work, the Amazin' Avenue Annual 2011 went to the printer last week and will begin shipping on March 1. The book is already available for pre-order from the following retailers:
* ACTA Sports
* Amazon.com
* Barnes & Noble
ACTA Sports is our distributor, and they are responsible for getting the book into your hands, either via their own website or through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and so forth. While we'd love for you to buy the book anywhere, the truth is that by purchasing it directly from ACTA we get a much larger portion of the sale than when you buy it elsewhere. However, ACTA sells the book at the list price ($19.95) while Amazon sells it for around $14. In order to bridge this gap, I've convinced ACTA to allow us to offer newsletter subscribers a deep discount for direct orders. From now until the end of February, you'll save 35% off the list price if you buy the book from ACTA and use coupon code "AAA11PD". Just enter the code in your shopping cart and you'll see the discount reflected immediately!
Here is the final contributor list for the book:
Ken Davidoff of Newsday (Foreword)
Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated
Will Leitch of New York Magazine
Ted Berg of SNY.tv
Tommy Bennett of Baseball Prospectus
Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing
Grant Brisbee of McCovey Chronicles
Greg Prince and Jason Fry of Faith and Fear in Flushing
Last week we offered an excerpt from Greg Prince and Jason Fry's chapter. Here it is for those who might've missed it:
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Hand Mr. Seaver The Ball
When the Mets prepare to take the field to Jane Jarvis’s organ on April 8, the first ball of the season should be thrown out by Tom Seaver. When they are ready to play their first home game of 2012, the first ball of the season should be thrown out by Tom Seaver. Come 2013, this ceremonial task needs to be put in the capable of hands of Tom Seaver.
Tom Seaver throwing out the first ball to start every Mets season would be a Terrific tradition. The more Tom Seaver at Citi Field, the better. Granted, he’s a full-time Californian these days, but he makes a couple of trips back east annually and serves as a diligent, if low-profile, Mets Ambassador. Raise that profile. He’s the best thing we’ve ever had. Keep him going. Make Opening Day = Tom Seaver. Make every Mets Hall of Fame induction day = Tom Seaver. Even if the new inductees weren’t his teammates, they are by definition some of the greatest Mets ever. Tom Seaver is the greatest Met ever. Nobody is more fitting to give a laying on of ceremonial hands.
Tom was not part of the 2010 induction of Cashen, Johnson, Gooden, and Strawberry. He should have been. He should be on hand for any occasion we deem sacred, including the first home game of every Mets playoff series (sooner, rather than later, one hopes).
And if possible, each of us individually should interject his name into every conversation about great pitching. For example, when someone starts comparing Stephen Strasburg to Walter Johnson or Bob Gibson or (God forbid) Roger Clemens, you say, "If he’s lucky, he’ll have a career like Tom Seaver." When someone else, for whatever reason, brings up Greg Maddux or Sandy Koufax, you say "Tom Seaver." For someone who was as dominant for as long as Seaver was, his name doesn’t come up nearly enough outside Mets circles.
At the very least, let’s keep his face visibly in our midst.
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We also released a contact sheet with every player profile chart from the book, as designed by Justin Bopp of Beyond the Boxscore. The book has all of these charts in full-resolution, plus full textual profiles, stats, and 2011 projections.
* ACTA Sports
* Amazon.com
* Barnes & Noble
ACTA Sports is our distributor, and they are responsible for getting the book into your hands, either via their own website or through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and so forth. While we'd love for you to buy the book anywhere, the truth is that by purchasing it directly from ACTA we get a much larger portion of the sale than when you buy it elsewhere. However, ACTA sells the book at the list price ($19.95) while Amazon sells it for around $14. In order to bridge this gap, I've convinced ACTA to allow us to offer newsletter subscribers a deep discount for direct orders. From now until the end of February, you'll save 35% off the list price if you buy the book from ACTA and use coupon code "AAA11PD". Just enter the code in your shopping cart and you'll see the discount reflected immediately!
Here is the final contributor list for the book:
Ken Davidoff of Newsday (Foreword)
Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated
Will Leitch of New York Magazine
Ted Berg of SNY.tv
Tommy Bennett of Baseball Prospectus
Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing
Grant Brisbee of McCovey Chronicles
Greg Prince and Jason Fry of Faith and Fear in Flushing
Last week we offered an excerpt from Greg Prince and Jason Fry's chapter. Here it is for those who might've missed it:
----------------------------------------------------
Hand Mr. Seaver The Ball
When the Mets prepare to take the field to Jane Jarvis’s organ on April 8, the first ball of the season should be thrown out by Tom Seaver. When they are ready to play their first home game of 2012, the first ball of the season should be thrown out by Tom Seaver. Come 2013, this ceremonial task needs to be put in the capable of hands of Tom Seaver.
Tom Seaver throwing out the first ball to start every Mets season would be a Terrific tradition. The more Tom Seaver at Citi Field, the better. Granted, he’s a full-time Californian these days, but he makes a couple of trips back east annually and serves as a diligent, if low-profile, Mets Ambassador. Raise that profile. He’s the best thing we’ve ever had. Keep him going. Make Opening Day = Tom Seaver. Make every Mets Hall of Fame induction day = Tom Seaver. Even if the new inductees weren’t his teammates, they are by definition some of the greatest Mets ever. Tom Seaver is the greatest Met ever. Nobody is more fitting to give a laying on of ceremonial hands.
Tom was not part of the 2010 induction of Cashen, Johnson, Gooden, and Strawberry. He should have been. He should be on hand for any occasion we deem sacred, including the first home game of every Mets playoff series (sooner, rather than later, one hopes).
And if possible, each of us individually should interject his name into every conversation about great pitching. For example, when someone starts comparing Stephen Strasburg to Walter Johnson or Bob Gibson or (God forbid) Roger Clemens, you say, "If he’s lucky, he’ll have a career like Tom Seaver." When someone else, for whatever reason, brings up Greg Maddux or Sandy Koufax, you say "Tom Seaver." For someone who was as dominant for as long as Seaver was, his name doesn’t come up nearly enough outside Mets circles.
At the very least, let’s keep his face visibly in our midst.
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We also released a contact sheet with every player profile chart from the book, as designed by Justin Bopp of Beyond the Boxscore. The book has all of these charts in full-resolution, plus full textual profiles, stats, and 2011 projections.
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Thanks!
--Eric
Eric Simon
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Thanks!
--Eric
Eric Simon
www.amazinavenue.com
www.amazinavenueannual.com
www.sbnation.com
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