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Rick Ankiel,
Ted Williams,
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Rick Ankiel,
Ted Williams,
Theo Epstein,
Tom Verducci
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Tom Verducci
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Rick Ankiel,
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Theo Epstein,
World Series
Dan Schlossberg has written thousands of articles and a number of books on the national pastime, including a couple of my personal favorites on which he collaborated as co-author, Al Clark‘s Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire’s Journey and Designated Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story. Schlossberg’s latest is also one of his oldest. He […]
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Ron Blomberg
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Theo Epstein,
World Series
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Ted Williams,
Theo Epstein,
Ty Cobb,
World Series
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Rick Ankiel,
sabermetrics,
Theo Epstein,
World Series
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Theo Epstein,
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St. Louis Cardinals,
Ted Williams,
Tom Verducci,
World Series
Not only is baseball season upon us, but baseball book season is upon us as demonstrated by the bouquet that arrived since Friday. My apologies, dear mail carrier. So in an attempt to catch up a bit… Meet Andy Green, San Diego Padres manager and bibliophile. A Q&A with Dan Schlossberg, author of the just-released […]
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Adrian Burgos Jr.,
Andy Green,
Dan Schlossn=berg,
David Ortiz,
Jon Post,
Jose Canseco,
Nolan Ryan,
Will Leitch
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Oakland As,
Pitching,
Rick Ankiel,
Ted Williams,
Tom Verducci
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What’s wrong with the national pastime? Seems like everyone has an opinion, but some strike me as more informed than others. That’s the feeling I came away with after reading Lincoln Mitchell‘s new book, Will Big League Baseball Survive?: Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball. I can […]
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how to fix baseball,
Lincoln Mitchell
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I wonder if Curt Smith plans on issuing an updated version of his 2009 bio, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story. Seems like it’s not only warranted, but given that Scully called it quits after the Dodgers’ final game of 2016 practically a necessity. Now Smith could include more tributes to the iconic […]
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