December 2023

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 1, 2023
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  • Mazel tov, Jim Leyland
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  • Bits and Pieces, December 6, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 8, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, December 12, 2023
  • Lest We Forget: Andre Braugher
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 15, 2023
  • Lest We Forget: Vic Davalillo
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  • Lest We Forget: Ken MacKenzie
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 22, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: Michael Nussbaum
  • The Bookshelf Conversation #173: Ryan Lavarnway
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  • Rabbit Hole? Try Attic Hole
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  • The End of the End
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, December 29, 2023
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November 2023

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  • Maybe SI should have waited.
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 3, 2023
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  • 'Tis the season (aka, Coming Down the Pike)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 10, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: Michael Bishop
  • Lest We Forget: Jim Caple
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, November 24, 2023
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  • (Swing and a) Missed
  • When is this book coming out?
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  • Let the winter reading lists begin
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October 2023

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  • Lest We Forget: Tim Wakefield
  • The Bookshelf Conversation #171: Philip Lee
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, October 6, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, October 13, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation #172: Joe Posnanski
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  • The CASEY Award Finalists
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  • Where's Ron-o?
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, October 27, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: Frank Howard
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September 2023

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, September 1, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, September 6, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, September 8, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #169: Jonathan Mayo
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  • Has it really been that long?
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  • I'm a writer, Jim, not a mathematician!
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  • Bits and Pieces, September 15, 2023
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, September 15, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, September 18, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #170: Erin Carlson
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  • The Bookshelf 'Second Chance' Review: Calico Joe
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  • Lest we forget: Dennis D'Agostino
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, September 22, 2023
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  • It was only a matter of time: AI's impact on sports journalism
  • Lest We Forget: Brooks Robinson
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  • Bits and Pieces, September 27, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, September 29, 2023
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August 2023

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  • Soapbox Time: Broken records
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  • Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, August 4, 2023
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  • Mets at the Topps o' the heap: An opinionated assessment
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  • Keeping it "100"
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation #168: Russell A. Carleton
  • A card a day: Juan Soto
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  • Five Cards a Day: #2-#6 Zack Thompson, Bryce Harper, Yadier Molina, Albert Pujols, Paul Blackburn
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, August 18, 2023
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  • Five Cards Whenever: #7-#11 Bobby Witt Jr., Sam Moll, Scott Barlow, Trevor Story, Rafael Devers

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  • Five Cards Whenever: #12-#16 -- Jeffrey Springs, Giovanny Gallegos, Brandon Drury, Michael Grove, Nolan Gorman
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  • Five Cards Whenever: #17-21: Shohei Ohtani, Tanner Scott, Joey Votto, Pete Alonso, Max Scherzer
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  • Five Cards Whenever #22-26: Clayton Kershaw, Fernando Tatis Jr., Miguel Cabrera, Byron Buxton, Trent Grisham
  • Pass the popcorn: Movie (and TV) news
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  • Five Cards Whenever #27-31: Mike Trout, Corey Knebel, Trevor Rogers, Kenley Jansen, Riley Greene
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  • Five Cards Whenever #32-36: Jordan Montgomery, Kyle Farmer, Zack Thompson, CJ Abrams, Brandon Lowe
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, August 25, 2023
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  • Five Cards Whenever #37-41: Josh Smith, Jorge Mateo, Adam Wainright, Keegan Thompson, Brian Serven

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  • Five Cards Whenever #42-46: Franchy Cordero, NL Average Leaders, Jesus Sanchez, Gerrit Cole, Jorge Alfaro
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  • Five Cards Whenever #47-51: Ryan Mountcastle, Jacob DeGrom, Mitch Haniger, Mookie Betts, Chas McCormick
  • The things we keep: Chicago White Sox yearbooks of the 1960s
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  • Bookshelf Review: The Last Miracle
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  • Five Cards Whenever #52-56: Matthew Liberatore, Dylan Cease, Marcus Stroman, Christian Javier, Jermaine Palacios
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July 2023

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  • A(n All-)Star is born
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 7, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 14, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #167: John Rosengren
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 21, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, July 28, 2023
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June 2023

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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 2, 2023
  • Bookshelf (kinda) Review(s)
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  • Lest We Forget: Roger Craig
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  • Bits and Pieces, June 7, 2023
  • Calling all readers
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 9, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, June 14, 2023
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  • What are the odds?
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  • The things some people might keep on a bookshelf
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 16, 2023
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  • China and Coral ("Moneyball" and "Bull Durham")
  • "My mother threw them out." An oft-told tale.
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, June 23, 2023
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May 2023

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  • Lest We Forget: Mike Shannon
  • Bits and Pieces, May 2, 2023
  • The Bookshelf Conversation #165: Chris Donnelly
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 5, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: Vida Blue
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 12, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #166: Marty Appel
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  • And then there was one (Sandy Koufax)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 19, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: Rick Wolff and Rick Hummel
  • Nothing succeeds like Succession (Bill Wambsganss)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, May 26, 2023
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April 2023

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  • Life's little disappointments
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  • The end of an era?
  • Just curious: How will the new rules impact future books?
  • New Yorker, New Yorker, it's a heckuva magazine
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  • Appointment Television: Apple TV series on Lou Gehrig in the works
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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #163: Michael Ortman
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 7, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, April 11, 2023
  • Lest We Forget: Michael Lerner
  • Lest We Forget: Hobie Landrith
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation #164: Lee Lowenfish
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 14, 2023
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  • Final PSA for the PBBC
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  • Bits and Pieces, April 19, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 21, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Meets ChatGPT
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  • How the new rules will impact the storytellers (#VinScully)
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, April 28, 2023
  • Lest We Forget: John Underwood
  • Lest We Forget: Dick Groat
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March 2023

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  • The Bookshelf Conversations #162: Ethan D. Bryan
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  • Tempis itineribus
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 3, 2023
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  • Don't Wait, Wait. Throw the damn ball!
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  • The Things We Keep: The Ticket
  • Bits and Pieces, March 8, 2023
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  • Bookshelf Mini-Reviews: Baseball's Memorable Misses and Major League Debuts
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 10, 2023
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  • Lest We Forget: A Sad Tripleheader
  • Bookshelf Review: The Ballpark Bucket List
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  • An existential crisis
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 17, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, March 21, 2023
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  • The Things We Keep: Moneyball
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 24, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, March 29, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, March 31, 2023
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February 2023

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  • Bits and Pieces, February 1, 2023
  • Lest We Forget: Frank Thomas, Sal Bando, Gary Peters, Ted Savage
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, February 3, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, February 10, 2023
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  • The envelope, please
  • Rules are made to be broken -- UPDATE
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  • Lest we forget: Tim McCarver
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, February 17, 2023
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  • Bits and pieces, February 22, 2023
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  • The Bookshelf Conversation #161: Graig Kreindler
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  • The things we keep: An Artifcts saga
  • Baseball Best-Sellers, February 24, 2023
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  • Breakfast: the most important meal of the day?
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January 2023

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  • Bits and pieces, January 3, 2023
  • Why Amazon's search engine sucks
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  • Kudos to Curt
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, January 6, 2023
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  • Bits and Pieces, January 10, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, January 13, 2023
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  • Bits and pieces, January 16, 2023
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, January 20, 2023
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  • Coming Down the Pike: New Baseball Books
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  • Baseball Best-Sellers, January 27, 2023
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