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Amazin Avenue Annual Ready for Your Next Device-athon

Judge Montgomery Davies will appreciate this news: The Amazin Avenue Annual is now available in eBook format for both the Kindle and Nook devices. And of course, you can still purchase it at the Apple iBookstore for any Steve Jobs-approved device. So whatever device you favor, please consider purchasing it for use on your very own device. And remember, if you purchase the Annual for the device of your choice, you can get a coupon for $10 off the purchase of the physical book when you order from ACTA Sports. Just email amazinavenue@gmail.com and they will hook you up, so that you may supplement your device version with a print copy.

Also, have you noticed that the more you say the word device, the creepier it sounds?

Devices, ladies and gentlemen.

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Amazin Avenue Annual: Now Available in Imaginary Form!

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Do you like to read about baseball but don’t hate trees? Then you’re in luck! The Amazin Avenue Annual is now available via the Apple iBookstore. So if you have an iPhone, iPad, iPod, or some other Steve Jobs-approved device, you can use it to read the Annual in tiny, tiny type. In case you’re not aware, the Annual is a primer for the 2011 Mets season, with pieces by Joe Posnanski, Will Leitch, Jason Fry and Greg Prince from Faith and Fear in Flushing, Ken Davidoff, and many more luminaries. I’m in there somewhere, too.

If you purchase the eBook, you can get a 50 percent off coupon to purchase the print book from ACTA Sports. That way, you can waste both fossil fuels and paper. Win-win! Details on that exciting offer can be found here.

If you have some other eReader like Kindle or Nook, then TOUGH SHIT. Until later this week, that is, when I’m told the Annual will be available on both those devices. Sorry I was so harsh earlier.

If you read the Annual and enjoyed it, maybe give it a billion-star review on Amazon, how ’bout? And if you didn’t like it, maybe keep it under your hat. Here’s some hush money, don’t tell your mom I gave you this.

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Hot Dog! We Have a Wiener!

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Amazin Avenue CoverI am pleased to announce that the winner of the first ever Scratchbomb trivia contest, and the recipient of a copy of the brand new Amazin’ Avenue Annual, is WFMU’s own Evan “Funk” Davies. He correctly guessed that the first ever batter I saw step up to the plate in a major league game was the immortal Keith Miller.

As I implied in the initial post, the answer was hinted at deep within the Scratchbomb archives. In this post from way back in 2007, I revealed not only the date of the game (June 20, 1987), but also the detail that my family was unable to sit in our seats until the fourth inning. Miller came to bat with Mookie Wilson on first and nobody out. He promptly lined into a double play. That pretty much encapsulates my baseball-viewing life ever since.

I will give away another copy of the Amazin’ Avenue Annual as soon as I can think of a trivia question that is just as dumb.