Received: 2011 Amazin’ Avenue Annual
Allow this post to remind all manner of book-writers: NotGraphs is in the business of receiving your books for free, reading them, and then writing thinly veiled advertisements on their behelf.
Courtesy of Amazin’ Avenue’s Eric Simon, the NotGraphs Literary Bureau has recently come into possession of the forthcoming 2011 Amazin’ Avenue Annual.
A review will almost certainly follow next week. In the meantime, here’s a the table of contents:
Foreword
by Ken Davidoff
Introduction
by Eric Simon
Part 1: Looking Back On 2010
Chapter One: Ten For ’10
by Eric Simon
Chapter Two: Pelfrey, Pitch Types & Platoon Splits
by Eno Sarris and Josh Smolow
Chapter Three: A Conversation With R.A. Dickey
by Sam Page
Part 2: Changing Of The Guard
Chapter Four: Cleaning Up After Minaya
by Ted Berg
Chapter Five: The Essentials Of Happiness
by Jeff Sullivan
Chapter Six: Revenge Of The Nerds
by Sam Page
Chapter Seven: Have Hope, Mets Fans
by Grant Brisbee
Part 3: Profiling The NL East & The 2011 Mets
Chapter Eight: Colossal NL East Adventure
by Tommy Bennett
Chapter Nine: Previewing The NL East Rivals
by Satchel Price
Chapter Ten: Meet The New Boss
by Alex Nelson
Chapter Eleven: Player Profiles And Projections
Part 4: The Minors: The Remnants Of Minaya
Chapter Twelve: Legacy Of A Scouting Director
by Alex Nelson
Chapter Thirteen: Reviewing The 2010 Mets Minors
by Rob Castellano
Chapter Fourteen: Prospect Profiles And Projections
by Rob Castellano
Part 5: Beyond The Chalk
Chapter Fifteen: The Unsung Superstar
by Joe Posnanski
Chapter Sixteen: Levittown
by Sam Page
Chapter Seventeen: Rookie In The Press Box
by Eric Simon
Chapter Eighteen: The Mets Legacy Initiative
by Greg Prince & Jason Fry
Part 6: Retrospectives
Chapter Nineteen: Overshadowed And Overlooked
by Alex Nelson
Chapter Twenty: The 2006 Mets, Then And Now
by Will Leitch
Chapter Twenty-One: ’Round Midnight
by Matthew Callan
Chapter Twenty-Two: Glavotage
by James Kannengieser
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
I thought Chapter Eleven would be about something… different.