Here’s something you don’t see every day: Punctuation in baseball

January 3, 2025

I am a great believer in the serial (Oxford) comma. It;’s pretty much in the stylebook for every outlet for which I’ve written. And you can find lots of arguments for and against its use.

But I’ve never seen in discussed in respect to baseball books until now.

Submitted for your entertainment and/or amusement, this piece from Baseball Prospectus: “The Annual: We Think About Commas, So You Don’t Have To.”

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