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End of the line

This is the 573rd entry of Baseball’s Best (and Worst). It’s also the last.

I launched this newsletter on Labor Day 2020, near the end of that bizarrely truncated Covid season. I haven’t missed a week since then, usually posting two stories, but sometimes as many as five. Most of those entries were powered by statistics, so it’s only fitting to present my final...

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This newsletter has devoted several months to an examination of past greatness. We’ve broken down history’s top 50 ballclubs — collectively known as the Best 50 — as determined by my new book, Baseball’s Best (and Worst) Teams. And now we’ve reached the end...

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Dear valued reader of Baseball’s Best (and Worst):

Baseball — no surprise — has always been one of my chief interests. But history, especially political history, is equally important to me.

That’s why I’m adding a political newsletter to my arsenal, specifically a newsletter about the Democratic Party, the nation’s oldest political party. It’s called ...

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Successive editions of this newsletter are counting down the 50 greatest ballclubs of all time — a/k/a the Best 50 — as ranked by my new book, Baseball’s Best (and Worst) Teams. Today’s entry focuses on No. 2, the 1998 New York Yankees.

Here’s a quick...

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We’re spending the 2025 season looking back at previous seasons, specifically the 50 greatest teams in history, a group that I call the Best 50. Today’s entry, the 1986 New York Mets, is No. 3 on the list, as determined by my new book, Baseball’s Best (and Worst) Teams</...

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