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Baseball Best-Sellers, January 9, 2026

January 9, 2026

Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the […]

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Coming down the pike: Update

January 7, 2026

In addition to the books previously mentioned, here’s a look at some additional titles to watch for in the new year. Who knows, maybe there’s a CASEY winner among them. Once again, I’m omitting all of the “romance novels” that purport to be about baseball, and there sure are a lot of them. You Gotta […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, January 2, 2026

January 2, 2026

First one of the year? Where does the time go? As I will proudly state with regularity, 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the Bookshelf in this format. There were a couple of versions prior to that, but once I found WordPress, what you see is what you get. Amazon keeps changing the way they […]

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Bits and Pieces, Nov. 12, 2025

November 12, 2025

♦   With the latest scandal, I wonder if books about the Black Sox will get a bump in readership? To catch up, here’s a piece from The Atlantic: “Baseball’s Big Whiff on Gambling.” ♦   Journalist Terry Moran posted this piece on “The Storyteller: Joe Posnanski on what sports tells us about love, loss and belonging” […]

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Coming down the pike: New baseball books

November 4, 2025

Now that the season is over, it’s time to look ahead to see what reading material will carry us over to “pitchers and catchers.” As with previous lists like this, I have omitted anything that falls into the general category of “romance novels.” Also, no books about trivia or designed for younger readers. In last […]

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