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New: An asterisk serves to let you know that the author is a member of the Pandemic Baseball Book Club. I enthusiastically recommend you visit the site, sign up for their newsletter, and buy some merch. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by […]

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New: An asterisk serves to let you know that the author is a member of the Pandemic Baseball Book Club. I enthusiastically recommend you visit the site, sign up for their newsletter, and buy some merch. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by […]

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Of course, I should have posted this as soon as it came in (on Wednesday), but life, you know? So you’ll forgive me if a couple of the items mentioned below are already past date. Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one […]

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Lately I’ve been noticing that baseball books are pretty much divided into a few categories. Many of the latest releases deal with the “new” game by which I mean using metrics such as launch angle or spin rates to determine who the best players are and how to assemble teams. Kind of like Moneyball rebooted. […]

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]

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My latest review on Luke Epplin’s Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball appears on Bookreporter.com. Look for an interview with the author in the near future.

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Just as Opening Day is just around the corner for players, so is it also for readers about the national pastime. The schedule might not be the same: there won’t be multiple releases every day, not even one a week, at least not on a regular basis. But the “rookies” will be hitting the shelves […]

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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]

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Bits and pieces, Sept. 10, 2019

September 10, 2019

♦ Jim Bouton passed away a few months back, but the tributes keep coming, such as this one by Max Frankel on Offthebenchbaseball.com. And this from the Albany Herald‘s Barry Levine. ♦ Tony Award winners Billy Crudup, Tony Shalhoub, and Tony Award nominee Zachary Levi will take part in a live reading of author Don […]

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From the press release: The Baseball Heritage Museum has a pair of events scheduled: Throw Like a Woman Author Susan Petrone will give a presentation 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Petrone wrote the 2015 novel Throw Like a Woman, about a woman who, at age 40, finds her life taking an unexpected turn when she […]

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You may have heard that the Cleveland Indians will “retire” their Chief Wahoo logo, effective in 2019. Why are they waiting that long? One guess. Quelle surprise. Don’t you think the Indians want to give their fans the opportunity to gather up  the”collectibles” as possible? So what am I to do with these then?  

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World Series reading

October 27, 2016

It’s an travel day today. Aren’t you glad they stared the game am hour early yesterday because of perilous weather? If not — and assuming the same length of four hours and four minutes — it would have ended after midnight. So I thought I’d save you some time and offering links to some of […]

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An oldie but a goodie

October 25, 2016

Haven’t done one of these in a long time so here goes: From the New York Sportsday website, a review of A Baseball Guy: Former Kansas City Royals Farmhand, Scout, and Major League Coach Takes You Inside the Game He Loves, by Guy Hansen and Tom Gresham. From Lookout Landing, a Seattle Mariners-centric site, this […]

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Notice how at this time of year “mainstream” (i.e., non-sports) writers and media in general come up with all sorts of “interesting” features about baseball? Here’s one about the “fine art” of scorekeeping now that the LA Dodgers are in the postseason. W.P. Kisnella‘s Shoeless Joe is listed among “5 books that influenced lives in […]

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All of Jonathan Knight‘s books have been about Cleveland sports. While those might seem to be of interest only to denizens of that city, his latest — The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy — is much more “universal,” appealing to fans not only of the local […]

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Remember me?

August 27, 2015

Hi, there, been awhile. Allow me to introduce… I won’t go that far. Yeah, you know, summertime and all. Have actually been doing some non-baseball reading (I know, right?) but have been trying to get back into the swing of things. Based on the disappointment of receiving the annual report on 501 Baseball Books Fans […]

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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]

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Note: Just like Chuck Lorre’s “vanity cards” at the end of The Big Bang Theory, you should read these list stories to their conclusion; the end is always changing, even though the theme is basically the same, finishing up with a self-promotional message. So without further ado, here are the top ten baseball books as […]

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Happy New Year, everyone. Hope nothing but the best comes your way in 2015, including the best baseball books available. Almost done with the non-baseball book and greatly looking forward to catching up on my regular reading, writing, and wrangling authors, filmmakers, and artists into discussing their work on new podcast segments. In the meantime, […]

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