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biography

Bookshelf Review: The Last Manager…

March 29, 2025

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Tagged as: Baltimore Orioles, biography, Earl Weaver, managers

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Baseball Best-Sellers, February 21, 2025

February 21, 2025

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 time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“). In addition, occasionally […]

Tagged as: biography, Fantasy baseball, instructionals, managers, Memoir, Non-fiction, Rankings, Reading Lists

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Coming down the pike: Update

November 14, 2019

Building on the previous entry about baseball books on the horizon, here’s a quick update on some additional titles announced since then, according to Amazon and in no particular order (from November into 2020). So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets, the Best Worst Team in Sports, by […]

Tagged as: Babe Ruth, Billy Martin, biography, Jay Horwitz, Jim Bouton, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, New York Yankees, World Series

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Bits and pieces

March 18, 2008

From WickedLocal.com, the Web site for the Lakeville (Mass.) Call and Enterprise, this list of favorite baseball titles. From WNBC.com, this brief profile about 100-year-old Bill Werber, believed to be the oldest ex-major leaguer. Werber published his autobiography in 2000, when he was a mere babe of 92. Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and […]

Tagged as: Autobiography, biography, Lists

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