If this is the day you shop online for the holidays — and if you define “the holidays” as the approach of the next baseball season — then do I have a deal for you.
Go to Amazon [1] or Barnes & Noble [2] and pre-order Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens. It’s a book so fresh it’s still being written.
By me. Some of you asked for it and, son of a gun, it’s on its way.
I’ll tell you more about it as it becomes closer to real, but it is about to exist and it will capture the events and emotions surrounding the season we just lived through, the one where our team won the pennant and made us all proud.
Helluva story, huh? Man, I can’t wait to read it as soon as I finish writing it.
I’d love to tell you you can place it by the tree or adjacent to the menorah or wherever you like immediately, but it won’t be published until March. But that’s OK. Spring Training is our version of the Advent calendar. Come March, you’ll be anticipating 2016 and hoping it will exceed 2015 and you’ll be thinking about 2015 and there’ll be a book in your hands to bring it all back to you.
So pre-order now [1] if such a proposition entices you. And please excuse me while I get back to writing the final portion of it.
And if you need a lovely baseball book as the non-baseball holidays near, you can’t go wrong with this one [3] or this one [4].