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December 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, December 7, 2018
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- Mazel tov, Jayson Stark
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, December 14, 2018
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- Lest We Forget: Penny Marshall
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November 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, November 2, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, November 9, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, November 16-17, 2018

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- The Bookshelf Conversation: Kostya Kennedy, Part Deux
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- Bookshelf Movie Review: The Catcher Was a Spy
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- Where have all the big books gone?
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- Baseball Best Sellers, November 30, 2018

October 2018

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- Oh, the places you'll go
- Baseball Best-Sellers, October 5, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, October 12, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, October 19, 2018
- The Bookshelf Review: The Big Fella, by Jane Leavy
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, October 26, 2018
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September 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, September 7, 2018
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- Bits and pieces, Sept. 12, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, September 14, 2018
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- A bit of sad news...
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, September 21, 2018
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- The things we keep, British edition
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- Pip, pip, and cheerio!
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August 2018

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- Hello? Is this thing on? (aka, a new 'Sandlot' movie?)
- Baseball Best-Sellers, Aug. 3, 2018
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- What's your baseball "beach reading?"
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- Review Roundup, Aug. 8, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, August 10, 2018
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- Baseball Card Day! Hooray!

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- Pardon the interruption, Pardon the Interruption
- Happy Birthday, Teddy Ballgame
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, August 17, 2018
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- Because you can put these on your baseball bookshelf
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, August 24, 2018
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- One was a baseball fan, the other, maybe not so much? (Neil Simon and Chuck Berry)
- Lest we forget: Tom Clark
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July 2018

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- Lest We Forget: Tab Hunter
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June 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, June 1, 2018
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- Ah, yes, I remember it well.
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- Lest we forget: Red Schoendienst
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, June 8, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, June 15, 2018
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- Haiku Review: I'm Keith Hernandez: A Memoir
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- Lest we forget: Donald Hall
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May 2018

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- 30-for-30, Literary Edition
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, May 4, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, May 11, 2018
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- A programming note: “Baseball Americana: An Illustrated Talk”
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, May 18, 2018
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- Lest we forget: Philip Roth
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, May 25, 2018
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- Philip Roth and baseball: Another "link"
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April 2018

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- You need him on that Wall
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- Baseball on Facebook? Get off my lawn!
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, April 6, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, April 13, 2018
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- A new world's record? (#Shamelessselfpromotion)

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- The Bookshelf Conversation: Tony Castro
- Well, THAT's disappointing (baseball preview issues)
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, April 20, 2018
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March 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, March 2, 2018
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- Lest We Forget: David Ogden Stiers
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, March 9, 2018
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- The Bookshelf Conversation: Rich Cohen
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, March 16, 2018
- Lest We Forget: Ed Charles
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- The Bookshelf Conversation: Sridhar Pappu
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, March 23, 2018
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- The Bookshelf Conversation: Bryan Hoch
- Why Lewis Black hates the Yankees
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- A cinematic opening day lineup
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- Lest We Forget: Rusty Staub
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, March 30, 2018
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- Hope this works out better than the last time: A new "League of Their Own" TV series

February 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, February 2, 2018
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- Lest We Forget: John Mahoney
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- First Berg, now Clemente?
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- A Fair(ly) bit of writing
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, February 9, 2018
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- Lest We Forget: Wally Moon
- You could probably put a lot of bookshelves here
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- Screw the first robin of spring...
- Baseball Best-Sellers, February 16, 2018
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- Review roundup: The Catcher Was a Spy

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, February 23, 2018
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- Lest We Forget: Jack Hamilton

January 2018

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- Baseball Best-Sellers, January 5, 2018
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- Coming down the pike, part two

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- Bits and Pieces, January 9, 2018
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- Lest we forget: Bob Bailey
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- Bits and pieces, January 11, 2018
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, January 12, 2018
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- Review roundup: Cinema Retro covers Richard Sandomir's book on TPOTY
- Lest we forget (lite): Ya gotta laugh (Satchel Paige courtesy Saturday Night Live)
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- Lest We Forget: Doug Harvey
- Lest we forget: Martin Luther King
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- Bits and Pieces, January 16, 2018
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- Stengel bio wins CASEY Award
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- Here's to the winners, but...
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- Baseball Best-Sellers, January 26, 2018
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- The first harbingers of spring -- UPDATE

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- My (fantasy) Q&A with Sandy Koufax
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- So do I have to get rid of my Fleer logo stickers now?
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- Lest we forget: Oscar Gamble

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