Holiday Book Offer (FINAL DAYS!)
Posted: December 9th, 2007 | Filed under: Baseball | 19 Comments »
FIrst off, big thanks to all of you who have bought The Soul of Baseball. Don’t worry — your bookplates are coming. I will have them out on Tuesday at the latest.
Second, here’s the Holiday special offer if you buy a new copy of The Soul of Baseball. I have run out of bookplates, but I have changed the link so that if you click on the book link now, it will take you to my favorite independent bookstore Rainy Day Books. If you order from Rainy Day you will get a book ALREADY SIGNED. How clever.
And I will still keep the offer going where you can email me to get a short note on specially designed “Soul of Baseball†stationery.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for that BBWAA post. It should be coming at some point in the next day or two.
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Long, all-over-the-place, funny really interesting blogs/posts. Clever, to-the-point short posts.And you can juggle? Cool.
Well the book was already at the top of my Christmas list. Now your special offer just got it bolded… I can’t wait to see what my KU/Chiefs fan (but not baseball person) father has you put on the stationary…
And while I’m here, recently new RSS subscriber, just wanted to say I love the blog, much as I do your work in the Star. Keep up the good work.
Would it be insensitive to request “Chin up, Padres fan – at least you’re not the Royals”
No way you can keep the autograph to the book plate. After dotting the “i” you’ll do a “vowel sidebar” followed by a “sometimes y” sidebar, followed by a “jail/gaol” sidebar, followed by an approximation (albeit a far superior one) of Bill Bryson’s linguistics books, followed by half of the travel books. By the time you get to the holiday greeting on the stationary it will be next July and you’ll somehow have come out with another book by then and be 52,000 words into your analysis of the jerseys from the home run derby.
Which is my way of saying thanks for being you, Joe!
Joe, you need a better sales pitch for the book. You’re a Malcolm Gladwell fan, right? Look through “The Tipping Point” for motivation on how to make the book sticky. Maybe a gold star in the top corner? Maybe speak to a few Connectors or ask someone to make a midnight ride throughout the country about your book?
Woohoo! Now to figure out what the heck to have written in mine (assuming my Mom decides to get it for me). This could be fun.
Perhaps, just for old times’ sake, it would involve the concept of asking about AFLAC at work…
Your blog is near the top of my favorites.
I assume Margo is stationary when she creates STATIONERY.
I love this blog (preface)
But there is no way I can imagine that Herscel was better (maybe equal too) than Adrian Petterson his frosh year at Texas… all the numbers are in Adrian’s favor (granted a somewhat weaker conference)..
Adrian Peterson went to Oklahoma, the hated rival of Texas.
Adrian Peterson was never a freshman either. He started as a junior, then became a sophomore, and then did his fifth year of prep school to let his body mature for the NFL.
Joe,
What do you thing of the Royals and Blue Jays going back to their powder blue unis for certain games?
http://homerderby.com/archives/1365
Little did I know when I got my first job at a daily in 1974 that in 2007, when I turned 50, the prerequisite for success for a sports journalist would be having a space to write about any damn fool thing he can think of. Instead, foolish me, I learned the inverted pyramid and sentence structure. Little did I know. Now, I’m back at a weekly, having been laid off by one of your larger newspaper chains after they killed my paper. Anyway, good luck with the blog. I do one too, but unlike you, it ain’t my day job.
Just bought the book for a cousin. Your offer didn’t do you much good, though, because I was going to get it for him anyway.
I assume this holiday offer was for real? I bought the book, then sent email last week to the address listed here but have received no response.
Editor’s note: Holiday offer is very much for real … will go through the many emails and send off the bookplates and stationery notes next week.
So when I was a young gal, I tried little tricks like holding the presents that were wrapped up for me under a bright lamp to try to see through the wrapping paper and figure out what I’d be getting.
Fast forward a few years, and here I am thinking about asking Joe if my mother has e-mailed on my behalf regarding this offer. Little girls may grow older, but some of us choose not to grow up much…
Joe – Hate to be the one to point this out, but I thought you’d like to know. On the Rainy Day Bookstore link (great idea, btw) the description for the book titles your book “Baseball and Jazz”, not “The Soul of Baseball”, and I thought you’d want to know, in case you wanted to fix it. I think I remember reading somewhere that “Baseball and Jazz” was the original title, but I’m not sure on that, but that could be where the mistake comes from…unless I’m missing something, which is always possible.
I will be picking up your book, giving it to myself for Christmas. I did follow the link to Rainy Day Books. The unfortunate thing is I won’t be ordering from them. International shipping costs is an unheard of $25+ I’m sure I can pick up your book at one of our large retailers on the north side of the border.
Finally put in my order for the book, so now I can send the e-mail regarding the note + stationery without feeling guilty. Can’t wait to read the BBWAA entry.
I received my book plate today.
Many Thanks Joe!