Details for Thursday night.
The book release party is this Thursday night (December 18) at Sherlock’s in Arlington, starting at 6:00 pm. Admission is free. Here are the details:
* The party is at the Arlington location of Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub & Grill, at 254 Lincoln Square (817/226-2300), a few blocks west of Globe Life Park.
* Our autograph guests will be lefthander Derek Holland, bench coach Steve Buechele, righthander Jake Thompson (expecting you Rockwall-Heath and DBat guys to come out and represent), Frisco manager Joe Mikulik, former Ranger outfielder Jason Botts, and Rangers field reporter Emily Jones. The autograph line will get moving at 6:00 pm, but you can arrive earlier if you’d like. We’ll plan to be at Sherlock’s until 9:00 pm.
* Please note that some of our autograph guests may not be able to stay until 9:00.
* There will be a set-up when you arrive where you can donate toys and books (new and unwrapped, appropriate for ages newborn to 12) to the Rangers Foundation’s Cowboy Santas Toy Drive, and another table where you can buy 2015 Newberg Report Bound Editions. (I’ll also have some of the 2011 and 2012 World Series editions on hand, plus some copies of the 2005 book, which has Botts on the cover.)
* You will receive a raffle ticket for every five toys or books you donate. You will also receive a raffle ticket for every Bound Edition that you buy at the event. (If you bring 2015 Bound Editions that you’ve already bought and received, show them and you’ll get a raffle ticket for each of those as well.)
* We can take cash, checks, and credit cards. The 2015 book is $25. The World Series editions are $20. The 2005 book is $15.
* You can bring your own stuff to get autographed, but please limit it to two autographs per baseball guest as you go through the line.
* At about 7:30, we’ll take a short break from autographs to conduct a quick raffle. Autographs will resume after that.
The raffle items:
* An 11 x 14 of the photo featured on the book cover, signed by all four players (Nomar Mazara, Joey Gallo, Jorge Alfaro, Nick Williams)
(that main photo is the one that photographer Walt Barnard got the guys to sign)
* Two Globe Life Park stadium seats from the 2011 World Series season, each mounted and accompanied by a matted photo of the Ballpark (two separate winners)
* Two autographed 2012 Bowman Chrome Rougned Odor rookie cards (two separate winners)
* An autographed Robinson Chirinos 8 x 10
* An autographed Luis Sardinas 8 x 10
* An autographed Gabe Kapler 8 x 10
* Throughout the evening, Ben Rogers of 105.3 FM The Fan will emcee things, which will include interviews with our guests.
* Once the autograph line subsides, we’ll open up the floor for a Q&A/roundtable discussion.
Don’t hesitate to bring the kids — the room will be non-smoking Thursday night.
[A couple unrelated things: (1) If you can’t make it to the party, you can still order immediate delivery of the 2015 Bound Edition by clicking here, or by going to www.NewbergReport.com and clicking the “Order Now” button under the image of the book cover; and (2) if you’re doing any of your holiday shopping at Amazon, there’s a way to help us out a bit at zero cost to you. Near the top of the front page of www.NewbergReport.com is an Amazon.com button. If you click it, any purchases of any kind you make on that visit to Amazon will kick a small referral fee to the Newberg Report (at no cost to you), which we’ll use to help upgrade our own product.]
See you Thursday night.