I just got a review copy of Alex Belth’s Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, a collection of essays from well-known and less-well-known writers about, well, their lasting memories of Yankee Stadium.

I haven’t read them all yet, but the book looks awesome. I’m obviously biased because I’m in there — near the back, in the section about the new stadium — but at the same time, often I’m disappointed with my writing when I go back and read it later and I’m pretty happy with the way my entry came out.

Of particular note, of the stuff I’ve read so far, are Tony Kornheiser’s piece about growing up a Giants fan — poo-pooing all Billy Crystal’s hoopla around Yankee Stadium — and Emma Span’s hilarious bit about Game 6 of the 2004 LCS in the Bronx.

You should probably buy this book, even though you’re probably a Mets fan. It’s got contributions from all sorts of famous writers and great baseball writers, plus from Luis Guzman and John C. McGinley, because that’s just how Belth rolls. Many, maybe most, of the writers involved aren’t Yankee fans. It’s just about the stadium, and baseball and memories and all that.

Plus it’s got me in there.

It ships in October but you can pre-order it from Amazon.com now.