Blog books
Everyone’s favourite cricket blog (don’t believe me? check here), Cricket with Balls, is now in print. Jrod has compiled the best, least topical, posts from his blog into a book – The Year of the Balls 2008: A Cricket Disrespective – and offered it for sale, about NZ$20 plus postage. (You can also pay $5 or so to download it, so you can read it on your computer…except you can already…well, go figure.)
It should be a great read, with some great stuff about kiwis in there – notably Jesse Ryder and the cult that has grown up around him.
In fact, you’ve probably heard about the book from other sites. It’s been getting quite a bit of coverage around the cricket blogosphere, where it has been described as the first cricket book written by a cricket blogger. I might just quickly point out, without taking anything away from Jrod, that this isn’t really true. I couldn’t say for sure which cricket blogger wrote the first cricket book, but Not Out! No Ball! Over! by The Bearded Inswinger Jack Perkins of Cricket Mystery was published earlier this year, with a fraction above zero publicity. (The title by the way is explained in this post.)
