December 2016

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  • What, The Sporting News is still a thing?
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 2, 2016
  • Do we really?
  • But not for me...
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Lincoln Mitchell
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  • Authors appearance: Brian Kenny and Billy Bean
  • Lest we forget: Margaret Whitton
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  • Author appearance: John Carvalho
  • When Hank 'met' Jackie
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  • That's un-American!
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 9, 2016
  • You're welcome -- 천만에요
  • Is you is or is you ain't my player?
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Mike Shannon
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  • How do you solve a problem like too many baseball books?
  • What took so long? (Cubs' David Ross pens book)
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  • Author appearance: Not Ralph Terry
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  • Does very late news qualify as fake news?
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 16, 2016
  • You can make anything connect if you try hard enough
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  • They used to cost a penny...AND you got free gum
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jon Leonoudakis
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 23, 2016
  • Well, here's something you don't see every day (baseball in Scientific American)
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  • Brought to you as a public service announcement (baseball movies on Netflix)
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  • Lest we forget: Peter Horvitz
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 30, 2016
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November 2016

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  • Can we get serious for a moment? (African Americans in baseball)
  • Hello, complaint department?
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  • Happy anniversary. Now where's my book?
  • Up the Amazon!
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  • Paging the spirit of John Updike
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  • Soon to be a major motion picture?
  • What goes around, comes around
  • Well that didn't take long
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 4, 2016
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  • Well they got that right at least (42)

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  • It will take more than a minute and a Huff
  • Timing is everything (Comrade X)
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  • FWIW: A Baseball Carol
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  • Stick it, Chief Wahoo
  • Pull up a book (Vin Scully)
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  • And this is why we still need "traditional" journalism
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 11, 2016
  • In honor of Veterans Day
  • What we were fighting for
  • Lest we forget: Mabel Bell
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  • For a ball like this, I'd need a nicer bookshelf
  • Another opportunity missed: W.P. Kinsella
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  • Author appearance: Tim Kurkjian
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  • What to read now: Yankees edition
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 18, 2016
  • The Great God, Baseball
  • The holiday season is upon us
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Al Yellon
  • Spitball announces Casey finalists
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  • Stories about new HoF candidates = back of old baseball cards
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  • Lest we forget: Ralph Branca
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  • Donald Trump, major leaguer?
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 25, 2016
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  • Guess I'm living in the wrong town
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  • Now hear this: Ron Darling
  • One more way to separate you from your money
  • Feeling a Draft
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October 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, October 14, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Oct. 21, 2016
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  • Guess who's back?
  • Hell Freezes Over (Chicago Cubs)
  • Hail fellow, well met: Michael Leahy
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  • Author appearance: Scott Longert
  • An oldie but a goodie
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  • The book(s) on David Ortiz
  • I say a little prayer for...Cubs
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  • World Series reading
  • It must be true. I read it in The New York Times
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, October 28, 2016
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  • Shameless self-promotion
  • The irony of the "untold story"
  • World Series gives booksellers and libraries a (Wrigley) field day.

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  • Teddy Ballgame would be proud
  • The surprising connection between baseball and Halloween
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September 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 2, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 9, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-sellers, Sept. 23, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Sept. 30, 2016
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August 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 5, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 12, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 19, 2016
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Peter Golenbock
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July 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 1, 2016
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  • Back to the future predictions
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 8, 2016
  • The Phenom, the millennial version of Fear Strikes Out?
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  • Will new Doc & Darryl doc quench fans' All-Star needs?
  • A "Tribute" to Johnny Bench
  • Ahead of the Curve: Long way to go?
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 15, 2016
  • Hall of Fame hosts Author Series events
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Brian Kenny
  • The Dykstra debacle
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  • Crossover episode
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  • The old grind
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 22, 2016
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June 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 3, 2016
  • Lest we forget: Lou Gehrig
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jeff Polman
  • The Bookshelf Review: The Last Innocents
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 10, 2016
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Michael Leahy (Part One)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 17, 2016
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Michael Leahy (Part Two)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 24, 2016
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  • For my next trick: Hank Greenberg's 1938 season
  • So this drops today: House of Nails
  • Recommended readings from CSM
  • Separated at birth?
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  • National Pastime Radio: Lenny Dykstra on the Lopate show
  • National Pastime Radio: Another baseball book not about baseball?
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  • Oh, I have got to get me one of these
  • Life imitates art?
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May 2016

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 6, 2016
  • All hail Hano, the Eternal
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  • "One of the great moments in the history of baseball"
  • Authors appearance: Dynasties past (and future?)
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  • Guest column: Parity & The End Of Baseball Dynasties
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 13, 2016
  • The Bookshelf Review: I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Tim Kurkjian
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  • Here's the Pitch Update
  • In Jeopardy of not knowing why this happens so often...
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 20, 2016
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  • Lest we forget: Alan Young

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 27, 2016
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April 2016

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  • Baseball Best Sellers, April 1, 2016
  • See here: Skirball hosts "The Unauthorized History of Baseball in 100-Odd Paintings: The Art of Ben Sakoguchi"
  • Leading with The Arm
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  • The collectibles of the Times
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  • When newspapers were an actual thing
  • Is sabermetrics really that much of an improvement?
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 8, 2016
  • A Darling observation
  • National Pastime Radio: The Darling trifecta/Jeff Passan
  • 30 for 30 (baseball books), Week 1
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 15, 2016
  • Celebrating Jackie
  • If you're within the sound of my voice...
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Erik Sherman
  • Bookshelf reviews: Ruth, McGraw, Mets
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  • I'm blue over Green and Red
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  • Art event: Vincent Scilla
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 22, 2016
  • 30 for 30 (baseball books), Week 3
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Howard Megdal
  • The Bookshelf Review: Game 7, 1986
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  • Author event: Joe, you can still make us proud
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 29, 2016
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March 2016

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  • Opinions vary
  • Opinions vary, movie edition
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  • Bits and pieces, March 3, 2016
  • Poor relations
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, March 3, 2016
  • National Pastime Radio: Ken Burns discusses Robinson documentary on Lehrer
  • Authors appearance, starring Howard Megdal
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  • Is baseball in Jeopardy? Damn right it is.
  • Birthday greetings, Jim Bouton
  • Lest we forget: Tom Knight
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  • One and done: A baseball card assessment
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, March 11, 2016
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  • Bookshelf Review: The Cardinals Way
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  • It's like there's a Moneyball for everything
  • Review roundup, March 15, 2016
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  • Happy anniversary and congrats on the "new addition"
  • Where has the time gone
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, March 18, 2016
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  • The goat ate my homework...
  • Brought to you as a public service announcement...
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  • Lest we forget: Joe Garagiola
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, March 25, 2016
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  • Baseball in Jeopardy again
  • National Pastime Radio: It's all about the "base"
  • The annual Baseball Preview review
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  • Now hear this: Fastball (baseball in podcasts)
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  • Baseball in Jeopardy once again
  • Author appearance: Erik Sherman
  • My kind of "30 for 30"
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February 2016

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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Kevin Larkin
  • Blogging for a good cause
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  • The first "robin" of spring
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  • The "robin" lays an egg
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  • Throwback Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 (aka, massive links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Feb. 5, 2016
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  • So a pitcher, a catcher, and a batter walk into a bar...
  • Waiting for the third 'strike' (bad baseball movies)
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  • Authors appearances at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
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  • Called third strike? The Quitter (Bad baseball movies)
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  • Called third strike redux
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, Feb. 12, 2016
  • Happy birthday to an original slugger
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  • Moment's over?
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  • Another bird sighting
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  • The closest I'll ever get to law school
  • Bits and pieces, Feb. 18, 2016
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, Feb. 19, 2016
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  • Wish I could go to this one...
  • Coming down the pike, Feb. 23, 2016
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  • Movie review: A Mile in His Shoes
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  • Jeopardy update
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  • Baseball Best Sellers, Feb. 26, 2016
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: George Castle
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January 2016

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  • You know it's coming sooner or later (the next Pete Rose book)
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  • Can't we all just get along? (The 'people' versus Murray Chass)
  • The "faux Hall" is better than no Hall at all for Marvin Miller
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  • Gammons, Epstein hold annual fundraiser
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  • Congrats to the newest Hall of Famers
  • Throwback Thursday review: This Great Game
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Jan. 8, 2016
  • A Hall of a learning experience
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  • Meet the Mets (Books)
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  • Because, sure, you can put cards on your bookshelf
  • Lest we forget: Monte Irvin (Update)
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  • Mailbag: Spitball and Baseball History & Art
  • Throwback Thursday (aka, links dump), Jan. 14, 2016
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Jan. 15, 2016
  • Martin Luther King Jr. and baseball
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Abie Rotenberg
  • Great expectations?
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  • An historic collection of books
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  • Throwback Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 (aka links dump)
  • Coming down the pike
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Jan. 22, 2016
  • Free association
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  • Because this would look nice on a bookshelf
  • Baseball manga review: Okiku Furikabutte
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  • Author appearance: Bryan Soderholm-Difatte at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation: Jon Leonoudakis
  • Closing out the series: The Tao of Baseball
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  • Lest we forget: Walt Williams
  • Throwback Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 (aka, massive links dump)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, Jan. 29, 2016
  • Topps 2016: Too much of a good thing?
  • Bits and pieces, Jan. 29, 2016
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