December 2015

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  • A night at the museum?
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  • Blowing up the '43 World Series
  • Now hear these: Podcasts from the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
  • Never a wrong time to mention menches
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Dec. 4, 2015
  • Author event: Carl H. Johnson
  • Author appearance: Peter Bjarkman
  • I will be brief: A quick look at e-books samples
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  • Another in a series of "Is this book really necessary?"
  • Award-time for books, too
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  • The NYPL seal of approval
  • Graham McNamee gets some well-deserved recognition
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Dec. 11, 2015
  • Happy birthday, Old Blue Eyes
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  • Lest we forget: Phil Pepe
  • Bookshelf movie review: Where Hope Grows
  • The Bookshelf Conversation: George Gibson
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  • Can I haz baseball gramerburger (redux)?
  • Sidebar update blues
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  • What's next? Stars Wars bug spray?
  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump), Dec. 17, 2015
  • Throwback Thursday Review: 1992 Fantasy League Baseball
  • A bit of trivia for "The Catch"
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Dec. 18, 2015
  • Bookshelf review: The Season of Pepsi Meyers
  • Isn't it nice when things work out?
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  • "Double" Jeopardy
  • Bits and Pieces, Dec. 21, 2015
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  • A new favorite
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump), Dec. 24, 2015
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  • What's cooking on the Hot Stove? The Baseball Bookshelf
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  • Birthday greetings: Dandy Sandy is a great-y 80
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  • Bits and Pieces, Dec. 31, 2015
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November 2015

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  • Bookshelf review: Pudge
  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Russ Cohen
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  • Wait 'til next year
  • National Pastime Radio covers the postseason
  • In case you were wondering...
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  • Lest we forget: Norm Siebern
  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Nov. 6, 2015
  • Mother of God; is this the end of...
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  • California, there I went.
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  • Lucky (?) 13
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Nov. 13, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Doug Wilson
  • Missing after action: Hall of Famers with no biographies
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  • Bits and pieces, Nov. 18, 2015
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  • My time is your time
  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump), Nov. 19, 2015
  • Now hear this: Dwier Brown on I Was There, Too
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, Nov. 20, 2015
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  • Coming down the pike
  • Lest we forget: Ken Johnson
  • W2L4
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  • 2015 CASEY Award Finalists Announced
  • Because these look nice on a bookshelf
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October 2015

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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Oct. 2, 2015
  • National Pastime Radio: Wait Wait remembers Yogi Berra
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Lonnie Wheeler
  • An apple for teacher
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  • Crawling out of the woodwork
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  • Brought to you as a public service announcement
  • Brought to you as another public service announcement
  • Author appearance: Michael Garry at Bergino
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Oct. 9, 2015
  • There are lies, damned lies, and statistics...
  • So much for doctor-patient confidentiality
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jerry Cohen, Ebbets Field Flannels
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  • Bits and Pieces, Oct. 13, 2015
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  • The things we keep. Or not.
  • Jessica Mendoza would probably find this insulting, too.
  • Pardon me, but is this Seat taken?
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump)
  • Lest we forget: Dean Chance
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Oct. 16, 2015
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  • Vaya con dios, old friends
  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Mark Armour
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  • Author appearance: Charles Fountain
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  • Literary smack talk
  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Oct. 30, 2015
  • What I did on my autumn vacation...
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September 2015

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  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump)
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  • Bookshelf movie review: For Love of the Game
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 4, 2015
  • Because you can put stickers on your bookshelf
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump)
  • Brought to you as a public service announcement
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 11, 2015
  • Lest we forget
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  • Hall of Fame hosts 10th Annual Film Festival
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  • Fans to Cast Their Votes for Frick Award Ballot Candidates at Museum’s Facebook Page
  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 18, 2015
  • Close, but not close enough
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Dick Flavin
  • 50 Years since Sandy turned Dandy with Yom Kippur decision
  • National Pastime Radio: Wait Wait, Tom Ricketts
  • Literary birthday greetings, Roger Angell
  • Say hello to my little friend
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  • Lest we forget: Yogi Berra
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 25, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Danny Peary
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August 2015

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  • Bookshelf Review: The Pine Tar Game
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Filip Bondy
  • Too long to wait for new POTY book
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  • Are you ready for some football?
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  • Guest review: Dorothy Mills on Throw Like a Woman
  • Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 7, 2015
  • I'll use my own chocolate syrup, thank you very much
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  • What is so rare as a day in June?
  • Bits and pieces, Aug. 11, 2015
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump)
  • Brought to you as a public service announcement (vintage cigarette ads)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 14, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Troy Soos
  • Since you can put a small TV on your bookshelf...
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  • Bits and Pieces, Aug. 17, 2015
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 21, 2015
  • Bergino Baseball Clubhouse hosts fundraiser featuring Mookie Wilson
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  • Remember me?
  • Podcast Pal: Extra Hot Great canonizes X-Files baseball episode
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 28, 2015
  • Another "Eloi" moment?
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jonathan Knight
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July 2015

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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 3, 2015
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  • Because Alex Rodriguez can (finally) put this on his bookshelf
  • Book pitches WW2 as lasting part of Hank Greenberg’s legacy
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 10, 2015
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  • Because dozens of fans at Home Run Derby have things to put on their bookshelves
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  • Documentaries, present and future
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 17, 2015
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  • Casting Call: Luckiest Man
  • Baseball books, the next wave.
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  • Bits and pieces, July 21, 2015
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  • Throwback Thursday, July 23, 2015: The "X" edition
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 24, 1015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Fritz Peterson
  • Bookshelf review: When the Yankees Were on the Fritz
  • So which project is Will Ferrell promoting this time?
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  • Looking for baseball in all the wrong places
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  • National Pastime Radio: Going to Kansas City
  • Got to roll with it, baby
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)
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  • Timing is everything, Alex Trebeck
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 31, 2015
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June 2015

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  • Bookshelf reviews: Pedro Martinez and Jorge Posada memoirs
  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Chris Lucas
  • Another Rainy (Baseball) Day in New York City
  • "I'm only one man!" (Bookshelf etiquette)
  • Lest we forget: Lennie Merullo
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  • Corn on the Cobb?
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  • Baseball Q&A with John Sexton
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  • Change for change's sake? Pass.
  • Throwback Thursday (aka massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 5, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Josh Leventhal
  • Times for another baseball review
  • That's nice, but what we really want to know... (Bud Selig memoir)
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  • Now hear this...again and again
  • Baseball from the cow's perspective
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  • Shameless self-promotion: Come say 'hi'
  • Throwback Thursday (aka massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 12, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Rob Fitts
  • New resource: Baseball History & Art
  • Hall of Fame hosts summer author series
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  • Bookshelf Review: Strangers in the Bronx
  • Because he could put a whole lot of souvenirs on a bookshelf
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  • Bookshelf Review: Mashi
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 19, 2015
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  • The face looks familiar (Alex Rodriguez's home run)
  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Brad Balukjian
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  • Can I haz baseball gramerburger?
  • National Pastime Radio: It must be important; I heard it on Wait Wait
  • Catch a falling All-Star
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  • Bits and Pieces, June 25, 2015
  • Bookshelf Conversations: The Lost Tapes
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  • Bookshelf Conversations: But wait, there's more
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 26, 2015
  • They can't all be gems
  • Moving on
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  • This magic moment
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May 2015

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  • Baseball best-sellers, May 1, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Me
  • A 30-in-30 review
  • Bookshelf mini-review: A History of Baseball in 100 Objects
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  • That's so sweet
  • Bits and pieces, May 5
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  • An unexpected source: The Atlantic
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  • Throwback Thursday (massive links dump, continued)
  • Baseball best-sellers, May 8, 2015
  • Just a song before I go...
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  • Bookshelf review: Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story
  • Japanese baseball then and then
  • Excerpt, excerpt! Read some about it!
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Fred Harris
  • Literary birthday greetings: Yogi Berra
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  • Mutual admiration society
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball best-sellers, May 15, 2015
  • The curse of the book "trailer"
  • Lest we forget: William Zinsser
  • To everything there is a season
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jeff Katz
  • Think about the children!
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  • I don't mean to be critical...
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  • Author appearance: Jeff Katz (but wait, there are more)
  • Throwback Thursday (aka massive links dump, continued)
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  • Baseball best-sellers, May 22, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Gary Cieradkowski
  • Brought to you as a "public service announcement"
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  • Another reason I feel justified in being a vegetarian
  • Review roundup, May 27, 2015
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 29, 2015
  • Authors appearance: Gelf Varsity Letters
  • At last, The New York Times gets in the game
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  • Lest we forget: Jerry Dior

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April 2015

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  • In the spirit of the day...
  • Happy (?) Anniversary
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  • Truth in advertising
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  • Busy, busy, busy
  • 501 redux
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  • Will probably have a great time; wish I could be there
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  • MASSIVE links dump, part one
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 10, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Steve Kettmann
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  • Paying it forward
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  • Throwback Thursday (aka, MASSIVE links dump, part two)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 17, 2015
  • A baseball book a day keeps (fill in the blank) away
  • Upcoming author events
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  • Bookshelf reviews (sort of)
  • Oh, sure, blame the intellectuals.
  • One suggestion on how to pick of the pace...
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  • National Pastime Radio: Dick Flavin on Wait Wait
  • Author appearance: Gelf's Varsity Letters
  • Coming around again
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  • Lest we forget: Stan Hochman
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  • Throwback Thursday (Massive links dump, continued)
  • A-Rod who?
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  • Baseball best-sellers, April 24, 2015
  • Ain't misbehavin'
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  • Another three hours of my life I'll never get back
  • Saturday at the movies
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  • Throwback Thursday (Massive links dump, continued)
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March 2015

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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Josh Pahigian
  • Lest we forget: Minnie Minoso
  • Literary birthday greetings, Arnold Hano
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  • Lest we forget: Alex Johnson
  • Lest we forget: Jeff McKnight
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 6, 2015
  • Let the review roundups commence
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Bennett Jacobstein
  • The things we keep: The sad truth
  • Blast from the past: Baseball Digest, March 1967
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  • "I'd like to buy a vowel."
  • Baseball predictions are created in a Cocoon
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  • Teen author seeks to increase interest in baseball
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 13, 2015
  • Hey, Will Ferrell, it's been done.
  • An early Happy Pi Day to you all!
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  • Lest we forget: Al Rosen
  • Bits and pieces, March 16
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Walter Friedman
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  • I will be brief: A quick look at e-books samples
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  • MLB saves some trees
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 20, 2015
  • Your version, my version, and the truth
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Barbara Gregorich
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  • The second time around: The Hidden Game of Baseball
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  • Forbes' annual baseball issue
  • Speaking of the Expos...
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 27, 2015
  • Bits and pieces, March 27, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Phil Pepe
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  • Shamless self-promotion
  • The annual Baseball Preview review
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February 2015

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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Ellis Valentine
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  • Baseball book reviewers roundtable
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  • The first "robins" of spring
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  • Baseball best-sellers, Feb. 6, 2015
  • Bits and pieces, Feb. 6, 2015
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  • Bookshelf Review: Joe Black: More Than a Dodger
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  • Move over, Gary Cooper and William Bendix
  • I could have sworn I wrote about this before
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  • To Kill a Metaphor
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  • Bookshelf reviews: Jeter titles
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  • Baseball best-sellers, Feb. 13, 2015
  • Lest we forget: Alison Gordon
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jane Leavy
  • Enough is enough?
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  • Alex Rodriguez and foregiveness
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  • Authors event: March at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
  • On the newstand
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Feb. 20, 2015
  • What I like hate about you...
  • Wait, what? Esteban Loaiza edition
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Ron Shandler
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  • Here's looking at you, kid -- Update
  • "Birdos" book club
  • Must-see: ESPN doc on Matt Harvey
  • Because you could put A-Rod's 661st home run on your bookshelf
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  • SO late to the fair
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Feb. 27, 2015
  • Lest we forget: Leonard Nimoy
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January 2015

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  • Lest we forget: Edward Hermann and Mario Cuomo
  • Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 2
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  • Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 9, 2015
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  • Back in the saddle again
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  • Truth in advertising: The Charlie O'Brien biography
  • Brought to you as a new public service
  • Coming down the pike: New baseball titles, Part I -- Biographies
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  • Coming down the pike: New baseball titles, Part II — History and Team Profiles
  • Coming down the pike: New baseball titles, Part III — The next Moneyball and re-issues
  • Coming down the pike: New baseball titles, Part IV— Odds and ends
  • Coming down the pike: A league of their own
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  • Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 16, 2015
  • Straying off topic: Non-baseball writers on baseball, and vice-versa
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  • Baseball and Dr. King
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  • Bookshelf review: 100 Years of Who's Who in Baseball
  • Author websites: Boon or bane?
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  • I will be brief: A sampling of baseball e-books samples
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  • Lest we forget: Tony Verna
  • Review roundup, Jan. 21
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  • Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 23, 2015
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Joe Siegman
  • Uh-oh for A-Rod
  • Kennedy's bio on Pete Rose wins Spitball's Casey Award
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  • O'Malley bio wins SABR's Seymour award
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  • Lest we forget: Ernie Banks
  • Lest we forget: Bill Monbouquette
  • Lest we forget: Charlie Williams
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  • Lest we forget: Rocky Bridges
  • Baseball best-sellers, Jan. 30,2015
  • 万歳！
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