March 29, 2009 6:00 am

Contest! Win a couple of great prizes!

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UPDATE #2: We have our winners! Thanks for playing…

NOTE — IF ANY PRIZE GOES UNCLAIMED FOR TWO WEEKS, WE WILL HOLD ANOTHER CONTEST TO DETERMINE A NEW WINNER.

UPDATE: I have added some clues below since no one is winning these prizes. I have put each person’s name all jumbled up below each picture. Now get to guessing!

Contest time again! Here’s your chance to win one of two sweet prizes… Feel free to enter to win each contest… (NOTE: Winners in the last 30 days are ineligible to win these prizes.)

Prize #1: As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires
(List Price: $26.00)

As They See ‘Em is an insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.

Bruce Weber, a New York Times reporter, not only interviewed dozens of professional umpires but entered their world, trained to become an umpire, and then spent a season working games from Little League to big league spring training.

Name the three celebs below and win this prize…

Picture #1 (left): A T R H G R E A E A M H H
Picture #2 (center): H H B A T U T E R C E I S L
Picture #3 (right): C T H R E E H O Z N I R L A

Prize #2: The Long Fall (Leonid McGill Series #1)
(List Price: $25.95)

Walter Mosley’s back. A new character. A new city. A new era. Meet Leonid McGill, an ex-boxer, hard drinker, old-school private investigator working a twenty-first-century Manhattan that’s gotten fancy all around him. The world in which McGill plies his trade is the city behind the city – the old-time mobsters clinging to their last bits of power, the hidden fixers who play city politics like a puppet show, the livery driver who’s really a fearsome hitman, the corrupt cops, the compromised bankers, and the doormen-on-the-take whose negotiations really make the town operate. As soon as The Long Fall begins, with McGill calling in old markers and greasing NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client, he learns that even in this cleaned-up city, it’s clear that a commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be a tricky proposition.

Name the three celebs below and win this prize…