December 2008

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  • * What did you do over your winter vacation, Chad Qualls?
  • * Review: Pinch Hitter
  • * What to give...
  • * Author profile: Bill Nowlin
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  • * Insomnia vs. nightmares: The lesser of two evils
  • * Simply the best
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  • * Review: Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball: A History
  • * Mike Mussina, supergenius
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  • * NPR blinded me with science
  • * Review: Rumor in Town
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  • * This week (Dec. 1) in Sports Illustrated
  • * With fingers crossed...
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  • * Mets make schocking managerial announcement
  • * Maddux calls it quits
  • * Torre autobio update
  • * Playing catch up, part 1

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  • * "With a capital B, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for pool."
  • * Let the (winter) games begin
  • * Maybe now someone will write the book.
  • * Author Profile/Book Review:
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  • * RK Review: We Are Cubs Fans
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  • * W2W4: Gil Hodges bio update
  • * "One must be frugal," he said, lighting his $10 cigar with a $100 bill.
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  • * Wish this had been available when I was in school
  • * New reference source
  • * Kudos are in order
  • * Fan mail
  • * Proud to be a sponsor
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  • * What did you just call me?
  • * Lest we forget: Sal Yvars
  • * 2B or not 2B, encore
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  • * You know your book has made the big time when...
  • * Author interview: Josh Chetwynd
  • * Baseball has no politics
  • * Review: Phillies Photos: 100 Years of Philadelphia Phillies Images
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  • * The most infamous baseball card, 20 years later
  • * ESPN overhaul
  • * "William Blake?" "This is your post?"
  • * Sourcebooks buys Cumberland House
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  • * Take our poll: Who's your favorite ballplayer/writer?
  • * It takes a big man to admit his mistakes...
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  • * Lest we forget: Will Stevens
  • * For the reader on your gift list
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  • * "The Spaceman" lands on NPR
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  • * Review: The Postwar Yankees
  • * Author Q&A: Kevin Goldstein
  • * Review: The Bill James Handbook 2009
  • * Movie Time
  • * Review: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
  • * And fantasy players rejoice...
  • * Oh, come on already...
  • * One hand gives, the other takes away
  • * Author profile: Jim Prime
  • * Book excerpt: America’s International Baseball Freak Show
  • * The other side of sabremetrics
  • * Author profile: Carl E. Watts
  • * Play-by-play on the radio...and television
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  • * Review/Author interview: Rocket Ron: The Ron Necciai Story and His Record-Setting 27 Strikeouts
  • * Announcement: Move over Moneyball, Keri's comin'
  • "Casey at the Bat," revisited

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  • * Happy New Year!
  • * "Hello, is this the legal department?"
  • * Wait wait, Mr. President-elect
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  • * Lest we forget: Dock Ellis
  • * Announcement: Galena's Baseball Legacy
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  • * More MLB Network news
  • * The Happy Recap -- and everything else
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November 2008

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  • * Lest we forget: Studs Terkel
  • * Review: Super Crunchers

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  • * Author profile: Benjamin Rader
  • * This week (Nov. 3) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * A belated happy birthday, Jim Brosnan
  • * Things not so good for Sports Publishing
  • * Studs Terkel, baseball fan
  • * Not just content being a writer: Joe Garagiola
  • * More on Sports Publishing
  • * Author profile: Marshall Umpleby
  • *Author profile: Frank Mitchell
  • * Book Review: Dropping the Ball
  • * Happy birthday, Bobby Feller
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  • * Hail to the chief
• 6
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  • * Jane Austen and ...baseball?
  • * Plumb logo
  • * When is collusion not collusion?
• 7
  • * Now hear this: The Baseball Project
  • * This week (Nov. 10) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * The Future of Baseball as seen by IBM

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  • * Tough times ahead for sports publications
  • * Thank you to all our veterans
  • * Mike Piazza, auteur
  • * Lest we forget: Preacher Roe
  • * New Tony LaRussa bio on the way
  • * New Mets books relive happy, sad memories
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  • * Vincent on Terkel
  • * Another book on baseball history
  • * Reactions to Piazza book
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  • * Lest we forget: Herb Score
  • * Congrats to Maddon, Pinella
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  • * Crossing the line
  • * A Royals performance by Frank White
  • That's Bull
  • * This week (Nov.16) in SI
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  • * Try a novel aproach
  • * New book recalls George Plimpton
  • * Review: The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed
  • * Stadium Shout-Out
  • * Now hear this: The Modern Scholar takes on baseball

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  • * It doesn't Happen Every Spring
  • * RK Review: Sports Weekly Baseball Insider
  • * RK Review: So Long, Shea
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  • * In these troubled Times, there is no room for Play
  • * More on "The Logo"
  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • Review: Remembering Yankee Stadium
  • * Author profile: Zack Hample
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  • * In the name of the father
  • * Source of the week: Life photo archives
  • * "Five minutes 'til curtain, Mr. Canseco."
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  • * "The best baseball book you have probably never read..."
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  • * RK Review: The Bill James Handbook 2009
  • * RK Review: Dingers!

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  • * Well, that can't be good.
  • * Stocking stuffer: Gandhi at the Bat
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  • * At the risk of tooting my own horn...
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October 2008

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  • * Better Ballparks and Gardens
  • Speaking of art
  • * What? No econ course in Moneyball?
  • * This week (Oct. 6) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Announcement: Baseball art exhibit in Appleton, WI
  • * Let the post-season publishing begin
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  • * Announcement: Mets' organist Jane Jarvis to be honored at jazz concert
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  • * List: Baseball coach lit
  • * Author profile: Joe Orlando
  • * Wowio! Hardball Times 2008 available free online
  • * Announcement: Baseball art exhibit in Boston
  • * Author profile: Bob Golon
  • * Road trip: Louisville Slugger Museum
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  • * Here today, gone tomorrow...
  • * Speaking of dying...
  • * Author profile: Mike Dooner
  • * As predicted: Cubs books
  • * Author profile: Dave Kaplan -- Keeping track of what Yogi said

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  • * Review: The Fightin' Phils
  • * Review: This Bad Day in Yankees' History
  • * Author Update
  • * An appreciation for the arts
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  • * Review: Dugout
  • * Author appearance: Craig Biggio
  • * ...many of which would like on your bookshelf
  • * Baseball in mental floss
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  • * Belated congratulations
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  • * (Website) author profile
  • * Shamsky shares Amazin' memories
• 16
  • * He just lost the baseball fan vote
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  • * Lest we forget...Tom Tresh
  • * In the interest of equal time
  • * Review: Beyond Belief
  • * Hemingway and baseball, imperfect together
  • * Try this
  • * More political mumbo-jumbo
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  • * Review: You Know Me, Al
  • * Now, that's scary
  • * Review: Remembering Yankee Stadium

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  • * Collector's item or clutter?
  • * (Baseball) stuff white people like
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  • * The sins of childhood
  • * The ultimate baseball library
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  • * Review: Beyond Belief
  • * Peanuts! Popcorn! Tacos!
  • * Review: Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs
  • * Why waiting is a good thing.
  • * As he prepares his third book -- an apology -- Canseco
  • * This week (Oct. 27) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Another book list
  • * Crunch time!
  • * SABR Biblio Committee Newsletter
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  • * Keep your money on the shelf
  • * Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
  • * What a genius!
  • * Some things just won't keep on the shelf...
  • * I saw it in the Times
  • * Baseball and a sick nation

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  • * Did ya miss me?
  • * The National Anthem: A World Series appraisal
  • * Review: Baseball Field Guide
  • * Time to sell the cards?
  • * Another "top" list
  • * And now MY tops list
  • * The All-Author Team
  • * Congratulations to the Phillies
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  • * I was thinking, three-inning games; but this is good, too
  • * Hats off to Tampa or "You wascally wabbit"
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September 2008

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  • * Negro League books
  • * Author interview: Robert Fitts
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  • * It's got to be in there somewhere.
  • * Amazon's top baseball titles, as of Aug. 26
  • *Happy (belated) birthday, Frank Robinson
  • * Author appearance: Harvey Frommer
  • * The Pride of the...oh, never mind
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  • * Author appearance: Rich Marazzi
  • * Frommer's travels
• 4
  4
  
  
  • * "Where are all the kids?"
  • * Hold the dogs, slide me some sushi
  • * Nickling and diming and dollaring the reader
  • * Murray Chass turns the page
  • * Fare thee well
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  • * This would look nice on my bookshelf...
  • * Author appearance: Nicholas Dawidoff
  • * This week (9/8) in Sports Illustrated
  • * Too big for the book shelf...
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  • * Lest we forget: Don Gutteridge
  • * Review: It Takes More Than Balls
  • * Conference announcement / Call for papers: NINE
  • * Uh-oh, BALCO
  • * Sports Publishing close to sale?
  • * Amazon baseball best-sellers, as of Sept. 8
  • * The Moose is loose
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  • * In defense of instant replay
  • * Review: No Minor Accomplishment
  • * "I read it in the Times...
  • * And in the "what are the odds" department...
  • * Congratulations, Gary Sheffield
• 10
  • * Announcement: Hall of Fame hosts educators' program
• 11
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  • * Announcement: Memorabilia expert on Bloomberg TV
  • * Lest we forget: Bill Melendez
  • * Lest we forget
• 12
  12
  
  
  • * The most unlikely slugger
  • * Review: Yankee for Life
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  • * Author interview: Adrian Burgos, Jr.
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  • * Art opening
  • * Pat Jordan on Barry Zito
  • * The anniversary is the only reason I can think of...
  • * Author interview: Dan Gordon
  • * Remembering Jules Tygiel
  • * SABR's Bibliography Committee Newsletter
  • * Current Baseball Publications
  • * Congratulations, Carlos Zambrano
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  • * Resource: Back issues The Baseball Research Journal
  • * Jonathan Eig's tribute to Lou Gehrig
  • * Lest we forget: Eddie Waitkus
  • * This week in ESPN The Magazine
  • * One reason I'm glad I don't live in New York anymore...
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  • * Author interview: Harvey Frommer
  • * Further proof that baseball readers are everywhere
  • * Writer interview: Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated
  • * Just finished reading...
  • * Last week (9/15) in Sports Illustrated
  • * This week (9/22) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Author profile: Johnny Bench
  • * If I knew then what I know now...
  • * The Frank Sinatra Songbook and Yankees baseball
  • * Another reason why I hate the Internet
  • * Another Yankee Stadium eulogy
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  • * Do a little dance....Get down tonight
  • * Where's Willard Scott when you need him?
  • * Another Yankee Stadium euology
  • * ESPN Scoreboard, 9/19
  • * Paying tribute to Yankee Stadium
  • * But on the flip side...
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  • * We have a winna (actually three).
  • * Reviews like they oughta be
  • * Author profile: Bob Golon
  • * Bouton to speak at Syracuse
  • * The oldest living Hall-of-Famer tells all, again
  • * Thank you
  • * SNL's take on Yankee Stadium
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  • * An anniversary some would rather forget
  • * Review: The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings
  • * A card set of every Yankees home game? Holy Cow!
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  • * Define "dynasty"
  • * The Take-Aways
• 25
  • * Too smart for my own good
  • * Review: Baseball in Europe
  • * Review: Green Monster
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  • * Suggested reading: Sean Horgan
  • * Announcement: Program honors Take Me Out author
  • * Suggested Reading, preface: Sean Horgan
  • * Announcement: Tigers' wives in the "pen"
  • * This week (Sept. 29) in Sports Illustrated
  • * Jon Scher, what were you thinking?
  • * Because I sometimes forget to clean up...
  • *" What happened to the stadium???"
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  • * R.I.P, Paul Newman

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  • * Oh well...
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  • * Author profile: Dan Helpingstine
  • * Author profile: Bill Meissner
  • * This week (Oct. 6) in ESPN The Magazine
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August 2008

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  • *Amazon’s top baseball titles, week ending 8/1
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  • * Giving a new definition to "coming out of the pen"...
  • * 202 reasons to be annoyed
  • * A blatant suck-up

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  • * Lest we forget: Skip Caray
  • * What am I bid?
  • *Happy birthday, Cleon Jones
  • * RK review: Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium
  • * McCarver on National Pastime Radio
  • * And speaking of The Natural
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  • * Second-half summer reading suggestions
  • * Author profile: George Vecsey
  • * McCarver on NPR updated
  • * And now for something completely different...
  • * Shea hey on NPR
  • * A-Rod and Madonna? Oy.
  • * New source: Mymagazines.com
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  • * New title coming soon
  • * Author interview: Adrian Burgos, Jr.
  • * Because it's never too soon to get them started
  • * Title words that rankle
  • * Woody Allen, baseball fan
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  • * More shameless self-promotion
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  • * Author appearance: Mark Cryan
  • * Baseball history mystery
  • * Defending America's game
  • * Minor leagues in name only
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  • * Lest we forget: Bernie Mac

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  • * Review: Sort of Gone
  • * Mini-reviews from The Oklahoman
  • * "Tigers, Tigers burning bright..."
  • * Review: Chief Bender's Burden
  • * Amazon's top baseball titles, week ending 8/8
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  • * Now hear this: I Never Had it Made
  • * Now hear this: Living on the Black
  • * Announcement: Author's Day at the Hall of Fame
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  • * Author interview: Don Rhodes
  • * Source: ReviewScout.com
  • * RK author profile: Kevin Baker
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  • * Review: Book Review: Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty & The Say Hey Kid: The Year That Changed Baseball Forever
  • * Lest we forget: Mickey Mantle
  • * This week (Aug. 18) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Nickname of the day: Phenomenal Smith
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  • * The next Red Smith?
  • * Saying goodbye to Jules Tygiel
  • * Nickname of the day: Boardwalk Brown
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  • * Minor league baseball, Major League yuks
  • * Lest we forget: Johnny Roseboro
  • * Nickname of the day: Baby Doll Jacobson

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  • * RK Review:Mickey Mantle: Rookie in Pinstripes
  • * Amazon's top baseball titles, week ending 8/15
  • * Review: Chief Bender's Burden
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  • * Tigers, Tigers, burning bright...
  • * Announcement: We Are Cubs Fans
  • * And if they don't
  • * Author profile: Thomas Kirkpatrick
  • * What does baseball mean to you, Diane Cameron?
  • * Happy birthday, Roberto Clemente
  • * Nickname of the day: Candy LaChance
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  • * Author profile: Frank Strauss
  • * Nickname of the day: Silver King
  • * Writing the Perfect Tigers book
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  • * Pass the popcorn: Hall of Fame hosts baseball film festival
  • * This week (Aug. 25) in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Nicknames of the day
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  • * Nicknames of the day
  • * More comical baseball
  • * Amazon's top baseball titles, as of Aug. 22
  • * Mike and The Mad Dog: Goodbye and good luck
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  • * Review: Six Good Innings
  • *Mr. Baseball, Esq.
  • * Nickname of the day
  • * Les francais aiment le baseball? Qui sut?
  • * But they don't shoot ballplayers, do they?
  • * And by the way
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  • * Politics and baseball: Strange bedfellows
  • * Answering to a "higher authority"
  • * Mark your calendars: Replay review starts Thursday
  • * Baseball in the End Times
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  • * Remembering Eliot Asinof
  • * Nickname of the day
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  • * Jay Mariotti out at Chicago Sun-Times
  • * Is that "blogging" or "slogging"?
  • * ESPN The Magazine deconstructs "TMOTTBG"
  • * Review: Red Sox reveries
  • * Happy birthday, Sweet Lou
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  • * Review: Yankee for Life
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  • * "What a day this has been..."
  • * Announcement: author appearance
  • * Giving back through books

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  • * Going to the tape
  • * Now if we had instant replay back then...
  • * "...but somebody has to do it."
  • * Remembering the Mick
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  • * Those 'Dodger Dogs' keep repeating...
  • * Pass the popcorn
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  • * Review: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
  • * Lest we forget: Jules Tygiel
  • * Adios, for now
  • * What the heck, one more: This week in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Back in town
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  • * A tribute (?) to Yankee Stadium
  • * A little slice of heaven from Roger Angell
  • * A-Rod on the Radar
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  • * The Bizarro Baseball Hall of Fame?
  • * Dodgy photos at LA library
  • * What he did during the All-Star vacation
  • * Baseball for Peanuts
  • * Just what we need, another "triumphant" kids baseball movie
  • * Would you believe...?
  • * Baseball (coverage) like it oughta be
  • * I suppose Canseco will write about this now
  • * There used to be a ballpark over there...
  • * Deceased memorabilia king keeps giving
  • * Amazon's top baseball titles, week ending 7/19

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  • * Movie smackdown: Bull Durham vs. Field of Dreams
  • * Making the "rounds" with Fay Vincent
  • * The dark side of the Yankees' Sun
  • * "Getcha score cards here!"
  • * Spare the A-Rod? Not likely
  • * The Celebrant: An appreciation
  • * Who's got one on the third base line?
  • * A rarely-heard from source
  • * Jules Tygiel
  • * TSN Today launches
  • * "The Best," once again
  • * Baseball and TV: Perfect together? Hardly
  • * But without the tats
  • * Next on deck: Writers up for the 2009 Spink Award
  • * Wanted: Diversity
  • * Lest we forget: Dell Bethel
  • * Lest we forget: Sherman Maxwell
  • * Baseball books and ephemera
  • * Ancillary reading
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  • * Lest we forget: Jerome Holtzman
  • * More on Holtzman
  • * "It was twenty (-five) years ago today..."
  • * Happy birthday, Barry Bonds
  • * SI online needs more quality control
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  • * Review: The Last Real Season
  • * Review: The Card
  • * Review: Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed
  • * Author appearance: John Coulson
  • * Review: October 1964
  • * A library appearance of their own
  • * Review: The Southpaw
  • * Author appearance: Ray Negron
  • * Review: Everything They Had
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  • * Author interview: Richard Doster
  • * Baseball's Best, Part 4
  • Review: Biggio: The Final Game
  • * Gelf Magazine update
  • * Update to "But without the tats"

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  • * Author profile: Ray Negron
  • * Ah, yes, I remember it well.
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  • * Soon to be a (major/minor) motion picture?
  • * Authors' appearance
  • Review: Man on Spikes
  • * Review: Playing With the Enemy
  • * Recalling a Nightline nightmare
  • * Marvin Miller shut out of HoF, but by whom?
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  • * Q&A with Sarah Freligh
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  • * Mini-reviews from a neighbor to the North
  • * Happy birthday, Casey Stengel
  • * This week (August 4) in Sports Illustrated
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June 2008

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  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • * RK Review: Living on the Black
  • * Author profile: Don Gutteridge
  • * Review: The Last Real Seaon
  • * Review: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Takes a Swing at Baseball
  • * I read it in The New York Times
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  • * Authors take the field at Dodger Stadium
  • * Review: The Greatest Game
  • * New book celebrates the legend of Harry Caray
  • * Review: The Bill James Gold Mine 2008
  • * Another oldie, but goodie
  • * Review: A Summer Game
  • * Baseball book roundup: Indianapolis Star
  • * Review: The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
  • * Curses, Gelf-ed again
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  • * Author profile: Dale Tafoya
  • * Announcement: Hall of Fame hosts annual symposium
  • * Remembering Mark Harris
  • * Of course, for females it's longer
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  • * Summer reading suggestions from the Denver Post...
  • * Another one bites the dust
  • * Happy birthday, Phil Linz
  • * Baseball and Jewish lore: perfect together
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  • * Announcement: ESPN Books to partner with Ballantine
  • * Announcement: Spike Vrusho at Kingston Barnes and Noble
  • * RK Review: The Big Field
  • * Not quite a review: Sid Dorfman on Tris Speaker
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  • * Don't forget about Dad on Father's Day
  • * Beach reading

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  • * Hold the hot dogs, slide over the sushi
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  • * Announcement: Baseball Night at Barnes and Noble in Orland Park, IL
  • * Congratulations, Ken Griffey, Jr.
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  • * Announcement: The next big thing for The Sporting News
  • * RIP, Eliot Asinof
  • * Review: Watching Baseball Smarter
  • * This sounds familiar somehow
  • * Paul Byrd's upcoming book
  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • * What if, what if...
  • * Whither Rick Reilly?
  • * Another Asinof tribute
• 12
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  • * And more on Asinof
  • * One curse down, one to go?
  • * Happy birthday, Hideki Matsui
  • * Lest we forget: RK on Mark Harris
  • * This week in Sports Illustrated
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  • * Author Q&A: John Feinstein
  • * Fathers, sons, sports
  • * Announcement: Help wanted at Baseball America
  • * Announcement: Last go-around for Baseball As America exhibit
  • * Lest we forget: Tim Wiles on Asinof
  • * Asinof's not quite done yet
  • * Happy birthday, Billy Williams
  • * "Ninth Man Out"
• 14
  • * 'Voicing' Take Me Out

• 15
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  • * Happy birthday, Ron LeFlore
• 17
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  • * RK Review: The Legend Of Mickey Tussler
  • * Now pitching: Hall of Fame catcher Bench
  • * Who doesn't like baseball cards? Part 1
  • * Who doesn't like baseball cards? Part 2
  • * Asinof, one more time
• 18
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  • * Announcement: Still looking out for Shoeless Joe
  • * Calling Inspector Gadget
  • * Lenny Dykstra's doing what??
  • * Review/Excerpt: Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs
  • * Sharing the Wealth
  • * So long, it's been good to know ya
  • * Who doesn't like baseball cards? Part 3
  • * AFI's "Double Feature"
• 19
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  • * Holy baseball, Batman
  • * The problem with democracy is everybody gets treated the same
  • * The right attitude, by Ken Griffey Jr.
  • * This week in Sports Illustrated
  • * Author profile: Dale Tafoya
• 20
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  • * Announcement: Baseball author forum at Cleveland Public Library
  • * 'Freak' me out
  • * Happy birthday, Billy Werber
  • * Lest we forget: Bert Shepard
  • * Of course, of course: Mr. Ed tries out
  • * Life imitates art
• 21
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  • * Going back to Brooklyn
  • * The debut of Sandy Koufax

• 22
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  • * More on the Joe Jackson Museum
  • * Bull Durham 20 years later
• 23
  • * Review: Anatomy of Baseball
  • * Announcement: Chronicling the Hall of Fame Game
  • * Israel Baseball League update
  • * Lest we forget: George Carlin
• 24
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  • * Book excerpt: Yogi: The Life &Times of an American Original
  • * Author profile: John Wolff
  • * Quiz time
  • * Review: We are the Ship and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
• 25
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  • * Must-have of the day: BaseballLibrary.com newsletter
  • * National Pastime Radio
  • * Bobble me? Bobble you!
  • * This week in Sports Illustrated (June 30)
• 26
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  • * Lest we forget: Roy Campanella
  • * Announcement: TMOTTBG authors' appearance
  • * Forthcoming book heralds College World Series experience
• 27
  • * Baseball's life lessons
  • * Shocker of the day
• 28
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  • * Old school vs. new
  • * Honoring Hank Greenberg
  • * And how much did they pay you to do this, Roger?

• 29
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  • * Books, the gifts that keeps on giving
  • * Review: We Are The Ship
  • * Review: Two from Texas
  • * Author profile: Steve Garvey
  • * Author profile: Fay Vincent
  • * Review: Strike Four: Adventures in European Baseball
  • * Reports from SABR Nation
  • * History in the making
• 30
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  • * Leitch out as Deadspin editor
  • * Lest we forget: Pete Gray
  • * Baseball beach reading, via ESPN
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  • * Announcement: Educational resources from Library of Congress
  • * Announcement: New Strawberry book on tap?
  • * Happy anniversary, Chuck Connors
  • * NPR Update: Gary Carter on The Leonard Lopate Show
  • * Now we're talkin'
• 2
  2
  
  
  • * Nailing it
  • * Lest we forget: Buzzie Bavasi
  • * RK Review: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
  • * Author video interview: Jonah Keri
  • * Speaking of deconstruction: Lost and baseball
• 3

• 4
• 5
  5
  
  
  • * Continuing the "essential" theme
  • * More on Neyer
  • * Bits and pieces
  • * The Anatomy lesson
  • * Vindicated once more
  • * Twilight time
  • * The "return" of Bobby V.
• 6
  6
  
  
  • * A visit with Bill Werber
  • * Baseball review roundup: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • * For the younger fans
  • * "Boo" to our neighbors to the North
  • * Eddie Ciccotte, reincarnate
  • * Another list, from Baseball-Reference
  • * Happy birthday, Willie Mays
  • * "Pop" goes the Toaster
  • * Another Lost baseball "fact"
• 7
  7
  
  
  • * Review: Now Batting, Number..."
  • * Field of Dreams? No, "Field of Life"
  • * Happy birthday, Syd Cohen
  • * Halberstam's legacy
• 8
  8
  
  
  • * Slap to the forehead moment
  • * And Rob Neyer's gonna getcha if ya don't watch out
  • * Happy birthday, Turkey Stearnes
  • * Happy birthday, Edd Roush
• 9
  9
  
  
  • * It's not baseball per se, but...
  • * Bobby Murcer's new book...
  • * Baseball in the latest issue of...
• 10

• 11
• 12
  12
  
  
  • * Author interview: Michael E. Lomax
  • * The WSJ's Numbers Guy on...well, numbers
  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • * Author interview: Michael Holley
  • * Review: Classic Cubs
  • * Review: Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty, and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever
  • * Author interview: The Code's Ross Bernstein
  • * Review: The Code
• 13
  13
  
  
  • * Announcement: New baseball titles from University of Nebraska Press
  • * Baseball book roundup: The New York Times
  • * Review: Baseball Field Guide
  • * Announcement: Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television
  • * How you can take a simple comment and turn it into something dirty...
• 14
  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • * Happy birthday, Big Ed Walsh
• 15
  15
  
  
  • * Announcement: New book celebrates Tigers' 68 season
  • * Happy birthday, George Brett
  • * Free downloadable baseball books
• 16
  16
  
  
  • * Announcement: Lulu.com creator pens baseball book
  • * Baseball history lessons you might not find in the books
  • * Announcement: Branch Rickey bio wins SABR Award
• 17
  • * RK Review: Vindicated

• 18
• 19
  19
  
  
  • * Review: Interview From Red Sox Nation
  • * Announcement (reminder): Torre is still working on his book
  • * Happy birthday, Turk Wendell
  • * Author interview: John Feinstein
  • * Baseball book roundup: The Noblesville (IN) Daily Times
  • * Announcement: Bash Brothers now available
• 20
  20
  
  
  • * Happy birthday, David Wells
  • * Happy birthday, Hal Newhouser
  • * Announcement: Another Yogi Berra book
  • * Privacy, please
  • * Class in session
  • * ForeWord sidebar: "And now a word from our druggist"
• 21
  21
  
  
  • * Review: We Would Have Played the Game for Nothing
  • * Happy birthday, Monty Stratton
  • * Nicholas Dawidoff picks his favorite baseball fiction
  • * Dennis hates baseball
  • * Announcement: Author of We Are The Ship in La Jolla
  • * Now hear this: Rob Neyer on podcast
  • * Baseball on NPR
• 22
  22
  
  
  • * Athletes get the word out about reading
  • * Farewell, Mike Piazza
  • * This Week in Sports Illustrated
• 23
  23
  
  
  • * The skinny on Foul Balls
  • Review: But Didn't We Have Fun?
  • * What am I bid...?
  • * New title from Arcadia: Baseball in Long Beach
  • * Column: The Real Jerry Coleman
• 24
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  • * Comic baseball
  • * Bits and pieces

• 25
• 26
  • * Curses, Haunted Baseball again
  • * Review: The End of Baseball
  • * Ban the Boo-birds
  • * Will Leech, er Leitch in the Times
  • * Review: The Comeback Season
  • * Baseball book roundup: The Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun
• 27
  27
  
  
  • * Nitpick of the day: Living on the Black
  • * The problem with sports journalism? It's the athletes.
  • * Home Run Derby, Old School
  • * Review: Living on the Black
  • * Now hear this: 7
  • * Spring SABR Biblio Committee Newsletter
  • * A bizarre feature in Acrobat Reader
• 28
  28
  
  
  • * Review: Ball Four
  • * Suggested reading for Mets players
  • * Announcement: Game of Shadows hits the small screen
• 29
  29
  
  
  • * Well of course Boston doesn't think it was a great game
  • * Announcement: New book chronicles Mantle's rookie year
  • * More on The Wall Street Journal's sports section
  • * Announcemnt: New book celebrates Rockies' "almost" season
  • * Happy birthday, Eric Davis
• 30
  30
  
  
  • * This week in Sports Illustrated
  • * Review: The End of Baseball
  • * Review: Everything They Had
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April 2008

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• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday

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• 1
  1
  
  
  • * Baseball book roundup: PhillyBurbs.com
  • * Review: Branch Rickey: The Ferocious Gentlman
  • * Birdie books
  • * Reviews from Publisher's Weekly
  • * Happy birthday, Phil Niekro
  • * On this date
  • * Clemens isn't taking PEDs; he's taking pre-natal vitamins
  • * A head for managing?
  • * Author interview: Joe Posnasnki
  • * A new New Yorker baseball essay by Roger Angell
  • * It's funny because it's true
  • * 2008 Complete Baseball Record Book available
  • * Don't look for Nationals Park to be featured in Architectural Digest anytime soon
  • * Oh, my head
• 2
  2
  
  
  • * Get your Bill James Freak-on (omics)
  • * Reviews: Vini, Vici, Vindicated
  • * How to succeed in business...
  • * Author appearance: Molly O'Neill
  • * Bits and pieces
• 3
  3
  
  
  • * Big time (movie) baseball stars
  • * ESPN and SI baseball previews: A head-to-head comparison
  • * Happy birthday, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
• 4
  4
  
  
  • * Announcement: ALA joins with HoF for reading program
  • * Mets feature in New York Magazine
  • * Review: But Didn't We Have Fun
  • * Review: Chief Bender's Burden
  • * Movie Time
  • * Review: We Are The Ship
  • * From the vault
  • * Review: The Southpaw
  • * Baseball review roundup: St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • * Happy birthday, Gil Hodges
  • * Review: The Natural
• 5
  5
  
  
  • * On this date

• 6
• 7
  7
  
  
  • * Review: An American Journey
  • * Review: We Would Have Played For Nothing
  • * Baseball book roundup: The Houston Chronicle
  • * Baseball book roundup: The Boston Globe
  • * Baseball book roundup: Sacramento Bee
  • * Review: Baseball's Greatest Hit
  • * Women and baseball
  • * Review: The Stark Truth
  • * Review: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
  • * Review: Asterisk
  • * Review: Baseball's Great Experiment
  • * Review: But Didn't We Have Fun?
  • * A "how-to" guide for buying baseball books
  • * Happy birthday, John McGraw
  • * On this date
  • *Video: Mike Wallace and Bob Feller
  • * Adjusting to the game
• 8
  8
  
  
  • * Catching up, Part 1
  • * Happy Birthday, Gary Carter
  • * On this date
• 9
  9
  
  
  • * Announcement: In the Big Inning
  • * Announcement: PBS to air Roberto Clemente documentary
  • * Why baseball matters
  • * 30 in 30
  • * Review: Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography
  • * Que sera, sera
• 10
  10
  
  
  • * Update: Clemente on American Experience
  • * State of the "art"?
  • * For all you science geeks out there
  • * Baseball book roundup: USA Today
  • * Canseco update
  • * Author interview: Richard Doster
  • * Happy birthday, Bob Watson
  • * On this date
• 11
  11
  
  
  • * Mad about baseball
  • * New favorites
  • * Author profile: Josh Pahigian
  • * On this date
  • * Author Profile: Steve Garvey
  • * Job posting: Canseco needs a new mouthpiece
• 12

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• 14
  14
  
  
  • * Why Conservatives like baseball
  • * RK Review: 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
  • * Happy birthday, Pete Rose
  • * Wait'll I get my mitts on you...unless they break first.
  • * Getting down to business: Baseball in Forbes
  • * Those silly Americans
  • * Announcement: Dummy Hoy documentary at OSU
  • * Announcement: Two baseball stories on HBO's Real Sports
• 15
  15
  
  
  • * Lest we forget: Tommy Holmes
  • * NY Daily News offers Yankee Stadium "collectibles"
  • * Baseball book roundup: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
• 16
  16
  
  
  • * Review: Clemente
  • * This is what we spent tuition money for?
  • * Happy Birthday, Jim Lonborg
  • * On this day
• 17
  17
  
  
  • * Way high and outside
  • * Happy Birthday, Cap Anson
  • * Review: Why a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports
  • * 'Nother Nayer review
  • * Happy birthday, August ballplayers
  • * Please, just shoot me
• 18
  18
  
  
  • * List: Crazy '08 author Cait Murphy's favorite baseball books
  • * Happy birthday, Jim Eisenreich
  • * On this day
• 19
  • * List of book reviews from Greg Spira

• 20
• 21
  21
  
  
  • * You heard it HERE first
  • * Happy Birthday, Joe McCarthy
  • * Review and BBC segment on We Are the Ship
  • * I have been remiss
• 22
  • * A few good (baseball) books, 2004 edition
  • * Baseball and philosophy and Baseball and Philosophy
  • * Congratulations, Chris Coste
• 23
  23
  
  
  • * Happy birthday, Warren Spahn
• 24
  • * Happy birthday, Carlos Beltran
  • * Two for teens
  • * Baseball as the great national team-builder
  • * Review: Chicago Cubs Yesterday and Today
• 25
  25
  
  
  • * Sometimes a fantasy is all you need
  • * America's best magazine writer?
  • * RK Review: Chris von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns
  • * Bits and Pieces
  • * "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
  • * Forget "The Book"
• 26
  • * RK Reviews: The semi-anual Bookreporter feature

• 27
• 28
  28
  
  
  • * Now hear these: Baseball Confidential
  • * "I read it in The New York Times..."
  • * NPR: National Pastime Radio
  • * Happy birthday, Charlie Metro
  • * RK Review: Walkoffs, last Licks, and Final Outs
• 29
  29
  
  
  • *This week's Week
  • * RK Review (and bugaboo): The Best Game Ever
  • * Whither Barry?
  • * Review: Yogi: The Life & Times of an American Original
• 30
  30
  
  
  • * Anouncement: "Art of Baseball" opens at the George Krevsky Gallery
  • * Author interview: Cait Murphy, Crazy '08
  • * Announcement: Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957
  • * Review: Snake Jazz, by Dave Baldwin
  • * I promised myself I wouldn't cry
  • * In a display of shameless self-promotion...
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March 2008

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• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday

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• 2
  2
  
  
  • "The Bible of Baseball" pulls up stakes
  • Happy Birthday, Mel Ott and Moe Berg
• 3
  3
  
  
  • Bits and Pieces
  • Happy Birthday, John Montgomery Ward
  • On This Day...
  • Revisionist history: How Castro's resignation impacts on baseball
  • Review: Mets by the Numbers
• 4
  4
  
  
  • Author interviews: Jonathan Mayo
  • Happy Birthday, Lefty O'Doul
  • Happy Birthday, Dazzy Vance
  • On this day...
  • Review: Going, Going, Gone
• 5
  5
  
  
  • Lest we forget: W.C. Heinz
  • Gelf magazine hosts two book events
  • We Are the Ship in Sports Illustrated
• 6
  6
  
  
  • Author Profile: Matthew Silverman
  • Veteran sports photographer bats 400 -- dollars, that is
  • On this day
  • Happy Birthday, Willie Stargell
• 7
  7
  
  
  • The Pride of the Yankees
  • Happy Birthday, Jeff Burroughs
• 8
  8
  
  
  • On this day
  • Happy Birthday, Jim Bouton

• 9
• 10
  10
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Steve Howe
  • On this day
  • Review: Diary of a Red Sox Season
  • Bits and Pieces
  • Old man's baseball reference
• 11
  11
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Dock Ellis
  • On this day
  • Bits and Pieces
  • In case you were wondering
• 12
  12
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Darryl Strawberry
  • Baseball and comics: the great American pastimes
  • Author profile: Tammy Lechner
  • Another "old rookie" title
• 13
  13
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Terry Leach
  • Baseball players are readers, too, y'know
  • Publisher profile: Sourcebooks Inc.
  • Review: Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year That Changed Baseball Forever
  • Happy Birthday, Home Run Baker
  • Another example of how everything connects to baseball
• 14
  14
  
  
  • $21.95? Not $4.06?
  • Happy Birthday, Kirby Puckett
  • On this day
  • Author profile: Ron Shapiro, sports agent
  • Definitely not a baseball book
• 15
  15
  
  
  • A belated Happy Birthday, Lou Costello
  • Review: The Bill James Gold Mine 2008

• 16
  16
  
  
  • Bill James, in his own words, via others
  • Happy Birthday, Lloyd Waner
  • On this day
  • Author profile: Jonathan Mayo
• 17
  17
  
  
  • "I've been waiting for a Web site like you, to come into my life"
  • Review: Under a Grapefruit Sun
  • Now see this: Pride of the Yankees: Collector's Edition
• 18
  • Bits and pieces
  • "What, you punk kids think you invented PHDs?"
  • Happy birthday, Mickey Rutner
  • Vindicated (and other new titles) updated
• 19
  19
  
  
  • "Nailing" it
  • Happy birthday, Richie Ashburn
  • Happy birthday, Billy Maharg
  • Now hear this
  • More Dykstra News
  • Announcement: Dykstra launches new magazine for ex-athletes
• 20
  • Let the book tour begin
  • The Entitled among the best? One man's opinion
  • Review: Moneyball
  • For Canseco, time to put his money where his mouth is
• 21
  21
  
  
  • 2008 Roundup: Tampa Bay Online
  • The list of five: Baseball's movies best films, according to CSM
  • Review: Baseball Haiku
  • Spring Training drinking game
• 22
  • * The Sports Illustrated "Vault": An early appraisal

• 23
  23
  
  
  • Baseball review round-up: Janesville (WI) Gazette
  • Baseball review round-up: Kids' books in the Austin American-Statesman
  • Baseball book round-up: Charlotte, (NC) Journal
  • Remember Jane Jarvis?
  • Because you can fit a (toy) car on a bookshelf
  • On this day
  • Happy Birthday, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
  • * For a Fun time, read (and listen) hear
• 24
  24
  
  
  • * Happy birthday, George Sisler
  • * Enough with the rivalry already
• 25
  25
  
  
  • * They're grrrrrrreat!!!
  • * Announcement: Hall of Fame pres steps down
  • * Announcement: Vindicated on sale March 31
  • * Let the chin-stroking begin
  • * Can't we all just get along?
  • * Bottom story of the day
• 26
  26
  
  
  • * Baseball book round-up: Foster's Daily Democrat (ME)
  • * Author profile: Mike Lupica
  • * Author profile: Tom Flynn
  • * Review: The Last Hurrah: Baseball in Northampton, 1873-1953
  • * Author profile: Peter Morris
  • * The next Clemens Report
  • * Vindicated update
  • * Here's your hat, what's your hurry?
  • * On this day
  • * Lest we forget: Richard Widmark
• 27
  27
  
  
  • * Announcement: Hall of Fame Plaques of Doby, Robinson to Leave Cooperstown for Civil Rights Game
  • * Your brain on Brain podcast
  • * Announcement: Bill James on 60 Minutes
  • * Vindicated vitriol
  • * This time I really mean it
  • * On this day...
• 28
  28
  
  
  • * Review: Your Brain on Cubs
  • * Nightline's report on Vindicated
  • * Moneyball: Coming soon to a theater near you?
  • * Review: Change Up
  • * TIME for Torre
  • * Happy birthday, Vic Raschi
  • * On this day
  • * Announcement: Worship service considers "Reflections on Baseball"
  • * RK Review: Baseball's Greatest Hit
• 29
  29
  
  
  • * Because it does

• 30
  • * The Bookshelf hits the mainstream press
  • * Coming soon: Opening Day coverage
• 31
  31
  
  
  • * Sure, why not?
  • * Bits and pieces
  • * Baseball book roundup: Chicago Sun-Times
  • * Lists: Suggested readings
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• Saturday

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  1
  
  
  • Birthday greetings
  • Annoucements: Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
• 2

• 3
  3
  
  
  • Birthday greetings
• 4
  • Announcement: Buck O'Neil bio wins Casey Award
  • Co-author of Let Me Tell You a Story, Podnuh tells all
• 5
  5
  
  
  • Birthday greetings
  • Mini-Review: Hank Aaron and The Home Run That Changed America
  • Get well soon, Jim Palmer
  • HarperCollins' turnaround
  • Welcome to the party, Wall Street Journal
  • I have an Issuu (but not, apparently, with WordPress)
• 6
  6
  
  
  • So you wanna be a sportswriter?
  • Call for Papers
  • * Reviews in BookPage
  • In honor of Black History Month
• 7
  7
  
  
  • Political waffling once again
  • Baseball, a la Norman Rockwell
  • From Newsweek.com: Baseball's Other Drug Problem
  • Announcement: Author of First Class Citizenship on C-SPAN2's Book TV
• 8
• 9
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  • Lest we forget: Karl Ehrhardt, The Sign Man
  • You say it's your birthday..

• 10
• 11
  • Clemens and Canseco: Together at Last?
  • Announcement: New book on minor leagues by Indians' former exec
  • Review: Whatever Happened to "Super Joe"?
  • The ethics of friendship
  • Bits and pieces
  • You say it's your birthday
  • As it turns out...
  • Today's audio selection
• 12
  12
  
  
  • You say it's your birthday
  • Announcement: Nine conference slated for March
  • Another county heard from
  • Let's get this over with
• 13
  • Notes on the Clemens hearings
  • Clemens Hearings: A perception
  • Update on hearings
  • Author Profile: Cait Murphy
• 14
  14
  
  
  • Three Little Words
  • Baseball fans: The Next Generation
  • Review: Biography about Sam Rice
• 15
  15
  
  
  • Elephants for Clemens?
  • Review: Athlon Sports Baseball Annual
  • Times at "Play"
  • Baseball as America exhibit comes to Philly
  • Topps trading card history
• 16

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  • Anybody wanna buy the rights to this book?
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Boston Herald writer suggests warming up for the season with a good read
• 18
  • Review: The Baseball Economist
  • Author interview: Jonathan Mayo
• 19
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  • For serious collectors only
  • Lest we forget: Bob Howsam
  • Announcement: Two new titles examine 'The Obsession'
• 20
  • This issue in Baseball Digest
• 21
  21
  
  
  • Review: Sporting News Baseball 2008
  • Forget Groundhog Day
  • Something for all you California baseball card collectors out there
  • Now he tells us?
  • I'd be happy with such a problem
  • (Belated) Happy Birthday, Tommy Henrich
  • Quote of the week
• 22
  22
  
  
  • NY Daily News notes two books
  • Mini-Review: The Baseball Prospect Book 2008
  • Mini-Review: 100 Baseball Icons: A Century of Historic Baseball memorabilia
  • Happy Birthday, Sparky Anderson
  • Happy Birthday, Ryne Duren
  • New from Brijit.com
  • On This day...
• 23
  23
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Elston Howard
  • And the Oscar goes to...
  • Review: Cubs Titles

• 24
  24
  
  
  • For you art afficianados out there...
  • Happy Birthday, Honus Wagner
  • Happy Birthday, Monte Irvin
  • Making a different kind of pitch
  • Author profile: Pablo Fenjves
• 25
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  • Latest on Brijit.com: Dave Niehaus in ESPN
  • Review: We Are the Ship
  • Review: Mets by the Numbers
  • New stadiums for old
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  • Happy Birthday, Old Pete
  • Kindle you believe it?
  • Announcement: New title chronicles history of baseball in Durham
  • Author interview: Tom Tango
  • MLB to curtail on-line content
  • Announcement: Bowie Kuhn memorabilia goes on auction block
  • Just an observation...
• 27
  27
  
  
  • On this day...
  • Review: Scout: 2008 Baseball Prospects Guide
  • Announcement: Waxman and Davis request Justice Department investigation on Clemens
• 28
  28
  
  
  • Review: Your Brain on Cubs
  • Review: 101 Reasons to Love the Mets
• 29
  29
  
  
  • Happy Birthday, Pepper Martin
  • Announcement: Cubs Forever
  • Baseball quiz, mostly movies
  • The Art of Baseball
  • Yankees, AG (after George)
  • Review: Facing Clemens
  • Audio/visual from The Glory of Their Times
  • More from The Glory of Their Times
  • Review: "The Father of Baseball"
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January 2008

• Sunday
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday

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• 1
  • We have a winnah!
• 2
  2
  
  
  • He's not the only one...
  • Author chronicles Mets 2007 debacle
• 3
  3
  
  
  • Cringeworthy Clemens
  • How Potomac Books chooses its baseball titles
  • Proving that you never know where inspiration will come from...
  • Book to tell the story of coach killed by line drive
  • The Futurama of baseball?
  • First it was no injections, now, not so much
• 4
  4
  
  
  • Moneyball vs. Mitchell Report
  • The more things change, the more they change
  • Museum exhibit, book chronicle pre-Rockies baseball in Colorado
  • Golenbock to pen Steinbrenner book
  • The genie is out of the bottle
  • Lest We Forget...Gerald Astor
  • Lest We Forget: Bill Kirwin
• 5

• 6
  • Well I'm glad that's all cleared up...
• 7
  • Happy birthday, Alvin Dark
• 8
  8
  
  
  • Lee Lowenfish discusses his new book on Branch Rickey
  • Have a seat. This is going to take awhile.
  • In the Biz: Behind the scenes at Thomas Dunne Books with Joseph Rinaldi
  • Here's your hat, what's your hurry?
• 9
  9
  
  
  • Review: The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-57
• 10
  10
  
  
  • Review: Willie Mays: Art in the Outfield
  • The Casey Award
• 11
  • Mel Didier, ex-Expo
  • Greatest sports book of '07? One man's opinion
• 12
  12
  
  
  • What One (or so) Book: Jim Callis, executive editor, Baseball America
  • Baseball Review: Baseball Hacks
  • NY Times questions for Buzz Bissinger
  • Book Review: Fantasyland
  • Lest We forget: Larry Whiteside

• 13
• 14
  14
  
  
  • Lest We Forget: Johnny Podres
  • Oxymoron: Sports experts?
  • Lest We Forget: Don Cardwell
  • Happy Birthday, Ray Chapman
• 15
  • Review: First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
  • Baseball Card Awards: The Gummies
• 16
  16
  
  
  • Review: Harvard Boys: A Father and Son's Adventures Playing Minor League Basebll
  • Author profiles: John and Rick Wolff, The Harvard Boys
• 17
• 18
  18
  
  
  • Canseco book, in and out
  • ESPN's Bill Simmons speaks for many of us
  • Now hear this: Podcasts to seek
  • Let the (Congressional) games begin
  • A breath of fresh air
  • This Week (er, last week), in Sports Illustrated
  • John Sayles on baseball and lesser matters
  • "Record" numbers
  • Happy Birthday, Curt Flood
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  • The All-Literary Team
• 21
  21
  
  
  • Lest we forget: John McHale
  • Analyzing the annuals
  • Review: Juicing the Game
  • Request for assistance
• 22
  22
  
  
  • Steroids 2.0
  • Canseco update:
  • Review: Extra Innings
  • Author interview: Patrick Smith
• 23
  23
  
  
  • In the Biz: Tim Kurkjian
• 24
  • Canseco's new career: film entrepreneur/blackmailer?
  • Until the actual hearings begin
  • It doesn't get any more literary than this...
  • Countdown to destiny
• 25
  25
  
  
  • Giving the fans the finger
  • Lest we forget: Richard Thompson
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• 28
  28
  
  
  • Announcement: The End of Baseball
• 29
  29
  
  
  • Catching up
  • (Paid) Signs of the Apocalypse
  • It's a crazy business
  • Announcement: But Didn't We Have Fun?
• 30
  30
  
  
  • The Clemens Report
  • More than one way to skin a card
  • Announcing a new lineup: 2008 titles
  • It's come to this for I Live for This
  • The Clemens Report: "The gift that keeps on giving"
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  31
  
  
  • Author profiles: Jackie Koney and Deidre Silva
  • Birthday greetings
  • Belated birthday greetings
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