Checking the Amazon sales charts will eventually be the death of me, so I’ll cut back, but I couldn’t help but notice that at 8 o’clock this morning Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets had risen to No. 7 on the Baseball Essays & Writings list, which made me very happy because I could hear Tom Hanks as Mr. White, the manager of the Wonders from one of my all-time favorite movies, That Thing You Do!, practically whispering in my ear:
As of tomorrow morning, you Wonders… you’ve got the No. 7 record in the country.
Not that I’m striving to be a one-hit wonder, but when you’ve had no hits to date, it’s pretty heady.
(FYI, one of the books ahead of mine is a basketball book, but never mind that right now.)
Thanks to all of you who helped shoot FAFIF up the chart so quickly. I truly appreciate that thing you did.
Please continue to spread the word that pre-ordering is on via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other fine online retailers. (And if you haven’t it ordered for yourself yet, you know what thing to do.)
Hi Greg,
You jumped 18 points from last night when you were number 25 and even that ranking was quite impressive!
Congrats.