We randomly gave away a signed (by the author, Matthew McGough) copy of Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees to YanksBlog.com visitor James Varghese. Congrats!

Rules

One entry per person. Repeat entries will be thrown out. YanksBlog.com staff members are ineligable as are their immediate families. The winner must have a mailing address within the United States. Winner's name will be displayed on YanksBlog.com. Entries must be submitted by 9:00 PM Eastern Time on September 26, 2005. Once winner is e-mailed, he or she will have 72 hours to respond to initial e-mail. If they do not, a winner will be selected from the remaining entries.

Prize Info

From the publisher: "Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections whatsoever with the ballclub, Matt dreamed of sitting in the dugout with the fabled Bronx Bombers. So, in the fall of 1991, he wrote a letter in his very best penmanship to the New York Yankees asking for a position as a bat boy.

Miraculously, he got the job, and on April 7, 1992, Matt walked into the madness of the Yankees clubhouse on Opening Day. And there was Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball himself, asking him to run an errand, an errand that soon induced panic in the rookie bat boy. Thus began two years of adventures and misadventures - from the perils of chewing tobacco while playing catch with the centerfielder, to being set up on a date by the bullpen, to studying for a history exam at 3:00 a.m. at Yankee Stadium, to his own folly as Matt gradually forgets he's not a baseball star, he's a high school student.

Bat Boy captures the lure and beauty of the American pastime, but much more it is a tale of what happens to a young man when his fondest dream comes true. Matthew McGough wonderfully evokes that twilight time just before adulthood, ripe with possibility, foolishness, and hard-won knowledge."