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GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition

POSTED: Friday, June 18, 2010, 5:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.

Insight, 244 pp., $50, May 25

The Fightin' Phils may be in a sorta-slump right now, but that doesn't mean you can't love on them like it was 2008. The wrist-breakingly heavy, gorgeously illustrated tribute book The Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition would make a great Father's Day gift — all the more reason for you to win this copy. Here's what Andrew Milner had to say about the book:

It took 127 years, but the Phillies finally have an oversize photo book worthy of a coffee table. The Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition covers pretty much everything in team history from their humble 1883 beginnings (won-lost record: 17-81) to the last two World Series seasons (Roy Halladay's perfect game and the on-field tasering will presumably have to wait for Volume 2). There's an excellent cross-section of player profiles, including fan favorites Maje McDonnell, Tony Taylor and John Kruk, plus Art Mahan of the 1940 team (he's the oldest-living Phillie) as well as first-person accounts from various team and clubhouse personnel. Cheryl Spielvogel, who's been a peanut vendor since 1976, speaks for all of us when she says, "(W)ithout baseball in your life — what do you do?"

To win a copy of The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, answer the following trivia question:

Christopher Guest, who wrote this book's foreword, plays Nigel Tufnel in the band Spinal Tap. What instrument does he play?

E-mail our resident baseball guru, Brian Howard, at brian.howard@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Philadelphia Phillies" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this afternoon for a chance to win The Hundred Foot Journey. [UPDATE, 12:45 p.m.]: Congrats to Sid, who was the first (12:04!) to correctly identifiy Christopher Guest as Spinal Tap's guitarist.

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