Dan Epstein’s Star and Strikes from the Dallas Morning News and the Tulsa World. Bill Littlefield, host of WBUR’s Only a Game, includes Alan Klein’s Dominican Baseball in this brief trio of sports reviews for the Boston Globe. The Baptist Press offers this one on Double Play, by Ben and Julianna Zobrist.
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This it the time of year when the baseball media offer their considered opinions on their favorite prospects. Sometimes they’re spot on, other times, not so much. So I thought, why not apply this to the upcoming “rookie crop” of baseball books? That is, titles that are making their debuts in 2014 — no reprints/reissues […]
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The team has scored three runs in three games, one of those coming on a home run by Ben Zobrist. I know it’s very early, but only Zobrist and B.J. Upton have more than one hit. The Rays are dead last in the Majors in runs, on-base percentage, slugging average, and batting average, with an […]
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