Free Download: Excerpts from Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual

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Okay, I said there wouldn’t be any more updates about the book until it hit the virtual bookshelves, but today I’m making a brief exception. The 28-page free download Excerpts from Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual is now available: Download Excerpts from Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual (PDF, 143k) And for those who may have missed it the first time, we also have an ... [link]

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Padres book shoutout
Published 2/19/2008 by Jim at FriarBall
Since we've hit the last news lull before the season, I thought I would send some publicity to Geoff Young over at Ducksnorts, who has just uploaded previews of his upcoming book, Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual. According to Geoff, the book should be available in the next few weeks and it will be a great read for Padres fans. So check out the preview and tell Geoff that Friarball sent you.

Friday links (or fielding links)
Published 2/22/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... Looks like the Ducksnorts annual is getting close to being finished. Geoff offers up a free preview in pdf-style. Congrats on the book and I can’t wait to pick it up!  ...

Progessive Blogs and other notes
Published 2/27/2008 by Lee Panas at Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog
... , Geoff Young's annual book on the Padres, is now ready. Geoff is one of best baseball writers and analysts on the internet and last year's book was excellent even if your not a Padres fan. This year's book promises to be just as good and you can check out some free excerpts . There is both a hardcover and PDF version available for this book.

Padres preview book
Published 3/24/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... I love the initiative of the blogger fandom to take creative control and put out a book.  Friend of The Book ducksnorts did such that, and the preview (pdf) looks fine so far.  I’ll buy the download today, and I’ll let you know next week what I think of it. ...

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