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TWIBB: Nov. 5, 2010

November 5, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Nov. 5 at Noon. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, […]

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Tagged as: Cincinnati Reds, Jane Leavy, Mickey Mantle, Sparky Anderson, Ted Williams, Willie Mays

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TWIBB: Oct. 30, 2010

October 29, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood , by Jane Leavy 1 Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair […]

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Tagged as: Dirk Hayhurst, Jane Leavy, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax

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Bits and pieces

October 25, 2010

An occasional wrap-up of things that have fallen through the cracks. A review of Baseball Is America: Origins and History: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Victor Alexander Baltov, Jr. A review of Fifty-Nine in ’84, Edward Achorn’s biography of Hoss Radbourn. Len Berman, author of a new kid’s book on the greats […]

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Bits and pieces

October 15, 2010

Roy Halladay’s no-hitter in the NLDS naturally brought back memories of Don Larsen perfect game in the 1956 World Series (and forgive a soapbox moment, but I wish they would stop lumping all post-season records together; Halladay’s marvelous game does not make him and Larsen the only pitchers to throw no-hitters in the playoffs, as […]

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