Thursday, April 01, 2010

BOOK REVIEW: MAPLE STREET PRESS METS ANNUAL 2010.

Every year for the last three years I’ve gotten a copy of the the Mets’ edition of the Maple Street Annual, thoroughly enjoyed it and found them useful, and then not gotten my act in gear to write about it before it was too late. This year, I’m not going to make the same mistake.

There are a lot of things demanding your baseball dollars these days. But the $12.99 you will pay for this tome is worth every single penny. They are jam-packed with quality writing and information. They’re especially good in helping you fill in those offseason information holes - even if you don’t hibernate and are still paying attention to baseball, there’s almost certainly going to be an information pocket that you missed. If you haven’t been paying attention at all, the Annual will catch you up. And even if you know everything that’s going on and could run your own Mets injury update hotline, the quality of the writing and the careful choices of topics makes the book a worthwhile purchase.