December 2011

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  • Guess who's back? W.P. Kinsella
  • A trip to the bookstore: USA Today Sports 2011 and SI's salute to Fenway Park
  • Because this is a full-service baseball media blog...
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  • Baseball book club news
  • Diane Firstman has way too much time on her hands, fortunately.
  • Call for papers: Hofstra University celebrates the Mets' 50th Anniversary
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  • Mazel tov, Bob Elliott
  • For Ron Santo fans, it's about time
  • Because you can put a hat on your bookshelf
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  • Oh, baby, I love it! Tim McCarver wins Frick Award
  • Stealing a page from Time: Baseball books in 2012
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  • Say it ain't so, Ryan
  • Say it ain't so, Ryan: continued
  • Time well spent: A visit to the Yogi Berra Museum
  • Eephus to launch new print publication
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  • What to give this holiday: "Real" or "virtual" books
  • Mr. Postman: New arrivals
  • This week in Sports Illustrated
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  • Baseball movie news
  • MLB Network makes itself even more attractive to baseball geeks
  • Happy trails to an old friend
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  • Truth in advertising? Hardly

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  • Winner winner, chicken dinner
  • SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter, 11/11
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  • Proving the metaphor baseball is Life
  • Jane Leavy: The daughter also rises
  • National Pastime Radio: Chad Harbach interview
  • Shame, Shame, Shame
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  • Kinsella feted by Canadian Baseball HoF
  • Diane Firstman still has too much time on her hands
  • Literary birthday greetings: Josh Gibson
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  • 'Tis the season for end-of-the-year lists
  • Light my Fire: Has the Kindle taken me to the Dark Side?
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  • Seasons Greetings
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  • Baseball movie review: Milltown Pride
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  • Hey , kids, do you know what day it is
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  • The next generation of baseball philosophers?
  • The problems with libraries today
  • Vecsey, Ribowsky at January sports authors event
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November 2011

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  • Back again...
  • Bookshelf Review: Fear Strikes Out
  • Bookshelf Review: The Last Icon

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  • Spitball Magazine announces Casey Award nominees
  • Announcement: Scouts Honor: An Evening of Baseball Conversation
  • Lest we forget: Bob Forsch
  • Shameless self-promotion: The Bookshelf on "Baseball Nation"
  • Divine non-intervention
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  • Bookreporter fall baseball feature
  • Amazon's top book of the year is a stunner
  • Author tripleheader at Atlanta JCC this Sunday
  • Mental Floss baseball quiz time
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  • Literary birthday greetings for a couple of Cards
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  • Where it all began: Bill James' original "abstracts"
  • Another one bites the dust: The end of The Sporting News as we know it?
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  • We didn't stop the documentary: Billy Joel and The Last Play at Shea
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  • Now hear these: Bergino Baseball Clubhouse podcasts
  • What's wrong with this picture?
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  • Bits and pieces, Nov. 15
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  • Anything for a buck? Mets release new/old logo
  • A nice tribute for an old friend: CCNY honors Maury Allen
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Buck O'Neil
  • Hot stove reading list: Aerys Sports
  • Back to the source: Lewis and Beane discuss Moneyball
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  • The beginning of the end?
  • Because you could put a Lou Gehrig bat on your bookshelf
  • Baseball cards sure have changed since I was a kid
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  • Belated literary birthday greetings: Stan the Man
  • Finally! (Or "The Art of Fielding misses a perfect game")
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  • Big surprise: NYTimes picks Art of Fielding
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  • Murray Chass among Int'l Sports Hall of Fame inductees for 2012
  • Literary birthday greetings: Vin Scully
  • Because I keep old scorecards on my bookshelf
  • How we took in the game
  • Speaking of Rothstein
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October 2011

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  • The Bookshelf: Back in bidness
  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner: Facebook Friend book giveaway
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  • Now hear this / National Pastime Radio: George Vecsey on Stan Musial
  • The joy of rediscovery
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  • Because you can keep World Series programs on your bookshelf
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  • Analysis: The Art of Fielding
  • These weeks in Sports Illustrated
  • What I'm reading on my vacation
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September 2011

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  • Because you could put a Dodgers cap on your bookshelf (if you could find one)
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  • At the risk of offending some of you...
  • Bookshelf review: Woman Characters in Baseball Literature
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  • Winding down and getting worked up
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  • Sure enough
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  • The art of publicizing The Art...
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  • Hats off to Mets, MLB for 9/11 stance -- NOT!
  • Sure enough, part 2
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Dave Kaplan
  • Moron the Mets' 9/11 hat fiasco
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  • A Yank in the AUS
  • And now a message from our artist
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  • Mission accomplished: Phase One
  • A new round for Moneyball
  • Does the Sports Illustrated curse apply to movies?
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  • Moneyball, reassessed
  • Congratulations, Mariano
  • “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursel's as others see us!"
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  • Cooperstown to host sixth annual Film Festival
  • Who should review?
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Tommy Lasroda and Larry Dierker
  • Books for bewildered Astros fans
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  • Moneyball: The reviews are in
  • This week (Sept. 29) in Sports Illustrated
  • Fathers playing catch with sons, Internet edition
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  • Review: Mark Kurnalsnky's bio on Hank Greenberg
  • ESPN does The Bartman
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  • More Moneyball, with interest
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August 2011

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  • Bit and pieces
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  • Mental Floss: Back-to-School quizzes
  • Summer reading for the New York beach crowd
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  • "Please don't talk about me when I'm gone..."
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  • Artistic blast from the past
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  • What I did on my summer vacation
  • What I also did on my summer vacation
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  • National Pastime Radio: Catching up with a couple of catchers
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  • Because the fans should vote on this
  • The breaking point of a Mets fan
  • 501 update
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Ed Hearn and The Designated Hebrew
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  • Trio of Brewers on SI cover? Uh-oh.
  • Bookshelf review: Beaverball
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  • Lest we forget: Mike Flanagan
  • Baseball books on eBay
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  • Youk gotta keep busy when you're on the DL

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  • Getting closer
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July 2011

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  • What I'm doing on my summer vacation
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  • My bad: Curt Flood documentary to air July 13
  • Lest we forget: Ruth Roberts
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  • So how quickly can we make money off of this?
  • Where's the Jurges book?
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  • Send in the Docs: A musical assessment of the Mets situation
  • Now hear (and see) this: Shawn Green
  • I am absolutely watching this show
  • Lest we forget: Dick Williams
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  • Glanville appreciates Jeter's accomplishment
  • Literary blasts from the past: The Splendid Splinter and Stan the Man
  • Bookshelf reviews: Extra Innings and The Card
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  • Bookshelf review: Pitching in a Pinch
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  • Bookshelf review: Baseball and Memory
  • The melody lingers on
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  • Author appearance: Robert Lipsyte
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  • Back to bidness
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  • For Black Sox, new twist on an old story
  • He said, he said
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  • What I'm doing on my summer vacation (Part II)
  • Literary blasts from the past, July 20
  • "It's a sad story." The fall and fall of Lenny Dykstra
  • Beach reading, part 1
  • Now hear this / National Pastime Radio
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  • Bits and pieces
  • All you need is the Benny Hill music
  • The pen is mightier than the baseball
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  • Bookshelf Review: The Greatest Game Ever Pitched
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  • Bookshelf review: Induction Day at Cooperstown
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  • Beach reading, continued
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  • Author honors: Paul Dickson
  • The best baseball books? A Sports Illustrated perspective
  • In the "dumb things people say" category...
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  • Of all the sad words of man and pen...
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  • Lest we forget: Hideki Irabu
  • Because you can put all sorts of legal documents on your bookshelf...
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  • National Pastime Radio: More "best" books

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June 2011

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  • In the words of Homer (Simpson), "Whoo-hoo!"
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Big Z
  • Bookshelf review: Baseball is...
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  • Trying to outFOX the viewers
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  • Literary birthday greetings: One is"Psycho" (and one is questionable)
  • Because you can put brains on a bookshelf
  • Artist profile: Graig Kreindler
  • Review: The Captain
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  • Shameless self-promotion: Part One
  • Shameless self-promotion, part two: Now it can be told
  • Literary birthday greetings: Buddy
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  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means, Bryce Harper
  • Times-ly reviews
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  • Musical birthday greetings: Van Lingle Mungo (plus a selected short)
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  • "Honey, have you seen my bookmark...? You WHAT?"
  • Bits and pieces
  • Good news/bad news
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  • Lest we forget: Jim Northrup, Jose Pagan, Paul Splitorff
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  • Bookshelf review: Pitching in the Promised Land
  • My apologies
  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Boggs, Butler, and Billy
  • This week (June 20) in Sports Illustrated
  • Ian Kinsler, literary "hero"
  • Time-honored cliches
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Ron LeFlore
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Super Joe and The Shuffler
  • Bookshelf review: Grantland
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  • Collectible birthday greetings: Andy Etchebarren
  • Literary birthday greetings: Bill Werber
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  • HBO's Real Sports features segment on Curt Flood
  • Literary birthday greetings: Steady Eddie
  • Calling all baseball filmmakers
  • Bookshelf(ish) review: The Accidental Sportswriter
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  • Literary birthday greetings: King Carl
  • Bookshelf author profile: Shawn Green
  • This week (June 27) in Sports Illustrated
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  • Literary blasts from the past: Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby
  • Do the math
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  • Literary blast from the past: Carlton Fisk
  • Literary birthday greetings: Wally Yonamine
  • Placing my pre-order now: The Complete History of the Montreal Expos
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  • Literary blast form the past: Bat boys
  • Jose Canseco: Thank me very much
  • Times-ly story on Derek Jeter

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  • Bookshelf Review: Nobody's Perfect
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  • Literary/musical blast from the past: TMOTTBG
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  • Literary blasts from the past: Biggio's big hit, Thomas' tater
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May 2011

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  • Bookshelf review -- via Bookreporter.com
  • Last of the Hoffarth One-a-Days
  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Cocky
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  • Author appearance update: Gelf Event, May 5
  • Literary birthday greetings: Ryan Dempster
  • Bits and pieces
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  • Tom Hoffarth's supplements
  • Hall of Fame sponsors authors series
  • And now for something completely different
  • Review: Baseball Miscellany
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Chief Bender
  • This week in Sports Illustrated
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  • Literary birthday greetings: The Say Hey Kid
  • Try not to prejudge John Rocker's literary plans
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Captain Video
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  • Cinematic birthday greetings: Ken Berry
  • Long game's journey into...day
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  • Lest we forget: Bill Gallo
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Mechanical Man and Milt Pappas
  • TSN-SABR Baseball Research Awards announced
  • Because you can keep a cup of coffee on your bookshelf
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Yogi
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  • Literary (and more) birthday greetings
  • Lest we forget: Bill Gallo update
  • Sad news about Killebrew
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Billy the Kid
  • Shameless self-promotion
  • Paul Dickson wins Salin Award
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  • What's on Second: A literary recap
  • Lest we forget: Harmon Killebrew
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Brooks, Mr. October (and Mr. Hardy)
  • More on Killebrew
  • The world according to Jorge
  • "Man, I wish I had a baseball cap right about now."
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  • Like Roy Campanella said...
  • Literary birthday greetings: Gil McDougald
  • "People of the books"
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  • Double entendre link of the day
  • Lest we forget: "Macho Man" Randy Savage
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  • Bookshelf review: The Captain
  • Literary birthday (and then some) greetings
  • Blog headline of the week
  • This week in Sports Illustrated (May 23)

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  • Literary birthday greetings: Zack and a King
  • Enter Captain Queeg?
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  • Bits and Pieces
  • Baseball Prospectus announces free public access to archives
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  • Belated musical birthday greetings: Bob Dylan (updated)
  • Literary birthday greetings: Lipman Pike
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  • Allergy alert: Gold's product injurious to Mets?
  • Maybe these guys should concentrate on playing
  • Q&A with Robert Wientraub
  • One down, one to go
  • A different set of dirty Sox
  • Well, that was interesting: "Pitching" for WNET
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  • Buster Posey: Occupational hazard
  • Lest we forget: Dana Brand (updated)
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Big Hurt
  • Of course it's a Mets affiliate
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Manny
  • Author appearances: Robert Lipsyte, Robert Weintraub, and Alan Hirsch
  • Author profile: Lawrence Baldassaro
  • Hail to the heroes
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April 2011

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  • Literary birthday greetings: Le Grand Orange and Knucksie
  • Baseball Digest, now and then
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  • Lest we forget: Lou Gorman
  • One-a-day: Tom Hoffarth

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  • Hoffarth's One-a-Day: Day 3
  • A haul of Hall books: Rube Waddell to Robin Yount
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Gil Hodges, the Golden Eagle, the Goat, and Superjew
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  • Just an observation: Tampa Bay Rays
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  • Team of the Times?
  • More one-a-days
  • Literary birthday greetings: Black Mike
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  • Authors appearance: Casey Stengel's Baseball
  • Literary birthday greetings: Bobby Doerr and the Little Napoleon
  • This week in the weeklies: The Baseball Preview Issues
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  • People of the book: New titles highlight Jewish legends of the game
  • Literary birthday greetings: Catfish, The Kid, and Kirby
  • Because you can put a courtroom sketch on your bookshelf
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  • So long, Manny. Don't let the door hit you on the fanny.
  • What if more of life was like fantasy baseball?

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  • National Pastime Radio
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  • Winner winner, chicken dinner!
  • Literary birthday greetings: Charley Lau and Addie Joss
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  • Baseball statistics for moronic idiots aspiring to merely be dummies: An annotated approach
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  • Major links dump, Volume 1
  • Authors appearance: Gelf hosts Frommer, Keri, and Whitaker
  • A tad off-topic: Kobe Bryant's Hurtful Words
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  • Falling behind on the vitamins

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  • What's up with The NY Times?
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  • Bookshelf review: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
  • Literary birthday greetings: Jim Eisenreich
  • Inaugural issue of baseball card publication 21 features Jewish Major Leaguers
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Donnie Baseball and The Golden Greek
  • Bits and pieces
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  • The Great DiMaggio, continued
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Warren Spahn
  • Catching up on Hoffarth's "one-a-days"

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  • Literary birthday greetings: The Wizard of Viz
  • More on 21
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Fire Trucks, The Barber, and Hack
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  • Bookshelf review: Campy
  • Bookshelf review: Derek Jeter: From the Pages of The New York Times
  • First A-Rod, now this?
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Tom House
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March 2011

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  • Authors abound at NYC SABR meeting
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Moe Berg
  • Literary birthday greetings: Master Melvin
  • Recently in Sports Illustrated
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  • Lest we forget: Wally Yonamine
  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner
  • Literary birthday greetings: Wee Willie and Monte
  • CASEY award goes to author of Aaron bio
  • The Mets Fans' Sad Lexicon
  • Bookshelf artist interview: Summer Anne Burton
  • Everything you always wanted to know about pronouncing statistical categories
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Dazzy
  • TWIBB: March 4, 2011
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  • Lest we forget: Harvey Dorfman
  • A haul of Hall books: Hal Newhouser to Kirby Puckett

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  • Literary birthday greetings: Pops, a Lefty, and the face of wartime baseball
  • Sweet reading from Maple Street
  • Bits and pieces (occasional links dump)
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  • Shameless self-promotion: What's on Second
  • Author appearances: Bi-coastal
  • Easter basket? No, baseball basket
  • What's on Second: A literary recap
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Player A and Player B
  • Two American pastimes
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  • A haul of Hall books: Hoss Radbourn to Nolan Ryan
  • Literary birthday greetings: Jackie Jensen
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  • Collectible birthday greetings: Lou Limmer
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Dock
  • Bookshelf review: Baseball: How to Play the Game
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  • Giving it 110%
  • Disclaimer? What disclaimer?
  • Scorecard! Get yer scorecard here!

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  • Literary birthday greetings: Puck
  • Shameless self-promotion, March 14 edition
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Bonds, Bobby Bonds
  • What's on Second? A literary recap
  • Welcome back, Kostner
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Curtis Granderson
  • Literary birthday greetings: Little Poison
  • Derek, you look mahvelous
  • This week in the weeklies
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  • People of the book: Harvey Frommer
  • Some Thorn-y issues
  • Lest we forget: Marty Marion
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Mickey Rutner
  • TWIBB: March 18, 2011
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  • A haul of Hall books: Ryne Sandberg to Don Sutton
  • Literary birthday greetings: Iron Man McGinnity
  • National Pastime Radio
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  • A birthday "card" for Ike Davis
  • Bits and pieces
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  • Recently discovered: Babe Ruth's "home movies"
  • Ranking baseball jerseys and the rules of engagement
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  • Literary birthday greetings, Dirk Hayhurst and Gorgeous George
  • Shameless self-promotion: Bardball's Greatest Hits
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  • Two of my favorite things, combined
  • A trip to the book store
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  • The Bookshelf Podcast: Richard Michelson
  • A haul of Hall books: Ben Taylor to Bill Veeck
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  • Lest we forget: Charlie Metro
  • Shameless self-promotion: What's on Second
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  • What's on Second: A literary recap
  • You're the Topps...
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  • Literary birthday greetings, new: Dave Baldwin
  • Literary birthday greetings, belated
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  • Author announcement: Bill White at Yogi Berra Museum
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February 2011

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  • It may be cold, but that doesn't make it less true
  • Behind the Times
  • Hardball Times made easy
  • Wait Wait, tell me again
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  • Hot thoughts on a "Cold" topic
  • Broadcasting + scoreboard = Sportscasting?
  • Rob Neyer: My idol and my curse
  • Literary birthday greetings: Red
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  • People of the (baseball) book (clubs)
  • Nickname of the day: Live Oak Taylor
  • In search of: Toronto used book store
  • "That's a good question."
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  • Hail and Farewell, Andy Pettitte
  • TWIBB: Feb 4, 2011
  • The Bookshelf Podcast: George Castle, Part 1
  • The Bookshelf Podcast: George Castle, Part 2
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  • Bits and pieces

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  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Babe
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Quiz
  • Shameless self-promotion
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  • Life imitates art?
  • A Hall of a lot of new programs in Cooperstown
  • If at first you don't succeed...
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  • Check your local listings: Grady Sizemore
  • I looked at you and got that old feeling
  • Literary birthday greetings: John Kruk
  • Because some people leave their brains on the bookshelf
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  • Here we go again: Canseco to publish third book
  • Literary birthday greetings: Nails
  • They find the cliches so you don't have to
  • Lest we forget: Tony Malinosky
  • Well, that's a relief
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  • Strat-O-Matic, the iconic game, turns 50
  • Check your local listings: Tim McGraw
  • The Literary All-Stars
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Fritz Peterson
  • Literary birthday greetings: Joe Garagiola, Lenny Randle, Dom DiMaggio
  • Lest we forget: Chuck Tanner

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  • Turning a blind eye?
  • Lest we forget: Betty Garrett
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  • Literary birthday greetings, Dave Dravecky
  • Happy Valentine's Day
  • And speaking of the day...
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  • Literary birthday greetings: The Penguin and Sliding Billy
  • A haul of Hall books: Roy Campanella to Kiki Cuyler
  • I'll see your three and raise you one
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  • RK review: USA Today 2011 Complete MLB Preview
  • Because you can keep a Medal of Freedom on your bookshelf
  • Because you can keep "Every Hall of Famer" on your bookshelf
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  • A haul of Hall books: Ray Dandridge to Buck Ewing
  • Something to aim for
  • Literary birthday greetings: Roger Craig and...
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  • TWIBB: Feb. 18, 2011
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  • Baseball forensics: Did Vladimir Nabokov work an actual baseball headline into his novel 'Pale Fire'?
  • Happy trails, Jim Edmonds
  • A haul of Hall books: Red Faber to Frankie Frisch
  • A day at the museum

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  • A haul of Hall books: Pud Galvin to Tony Gwynn
  • Literary birthday greetings: Sam Rice
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  • A haul of Hall books: Reggie Jackson to Bowie Kuhn
  • Literary birthday greetings: Alan Trammell
  • Hail to the chiefs: Presidents and baseball
  • For teachers only: "How to Design a Room About the History of Baseball"
  • A haul of Hall books: Chick Hafey to Monte Irvin
  • Get started on that "museum room"
  • Announcement: R.A. Dickey penning his memoirs
  • Shameless self-promotion
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  • A haul of Hall books: Connie Mack to Stan Musial
  • This has "problem" written all over it
  • Let's play a game
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  • Let the lists begin
  • Author appearance: Adrian Burgos, Jr
  • Author appearance: Joseph Wallace
  • Literary birthday greetings: Bobby Bonilla
  • Dream on
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  • Unrest in our nation's capital
  • New MLB commercial channels Field of Dreams
  • Here we go agin (and, no, that's not my usual typo)
  • Hello, Studio? Get me re-write. Or not.
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Flying Dutchman
  • Musical birthday greetings: Bronson Arroyo
  • Bookshelf review: Lindy's Sports Baseball 2011 Preview
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  • TWIBB: Feb. 25, 2011
  • Thayer at the stoop
  • Photo book on Sandy just Dandy
  • Literary birthday greetings: The Warrior and Mr. Murder
  • Lest we forget: Andy Jurinko
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  • A haul of Hall books: Nap Lajoie to Ted Lyons
  • A haul of Hall books: Connie Mack to Stan Musial
  • The Lou's

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  • Yogi for sale
  • Lots of things for the bookshelf...and beyond
  • Lest we forget: Duke Snider
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  • Shameless self-promotion
  • Lest we forget: Greg Goossen
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January 2011

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  • Feat your eyes: Great Museums presents the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Literary birthday greetings: David Cone
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Dutch Daulton
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  • Nerd alert: SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter and more
  • Because Canadians read, too...
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Kittle, Battey, and Dahlen
  • And speaking of the Hall of Fame
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  • Moving from second base to pitching: Steve Sax
  • Literary birthday greetings: Early Wynn and...
  • Too much partying is no excuse...
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  • The Bookshelf Podcast: Jane Leavy, Part 2
  • Killing two birds with one stone
  • TWIBB: Jan. 7, 2011
  • The Bookshelf Podcast: At long last -- Leavy (Part 1)
  • Lest we forget: Ryne Duren
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  • Three of a kind
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  • Brought to you as a public service announcement
  • "Got my tweed crest, got my best vest, all I need now is...
  • I know what I'll be watching tonight
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  • Well, that was...interesting
  • Is it just me? The post-Hall of Fame elections analysis
  • Next up for Jose Canseco...
  • Now hear this: Sam Fuld
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  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner
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  • TWIBB: Jan. 14, 2011
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  • The Bookshelf Podcast: Joseph Wallace
  • Bits and pieces
  • It's a date

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  • Literary birthday greetings to a couple of Cards
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Zim, et al
  • Cinematic birthday greetings: James Earl Jones
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Curt Flood
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  • Bits and pieces
  • Lest we forget: Wilfrid Sheed
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  • Literary birthday greetings...
  • Bits and pieces
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  • TWIBB: Jan. 21, 2011
  • Because he was one of my first baseball cards
  • Because you can keep a trophy on a bookshelf
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  • Logo loco
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  • The real "most wonderful time of the year"
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  • Literary birthday greetings: The original Ueck
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  • A haul of 'Hall' books: Hank Aaron to Earl Averill
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  • A haul of 'Hall' books: Home Run Baker to Jesse Burkett
  • New sidebar links
  • TWIBB: Jan. 28, 2011
  • Literary birthday greetings: Bill White
  • What we do
  • What we do: James Bailey's comment
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  • Literary birthday greetings: Davey Johnson
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  • A bevy of literary birthday greetings
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