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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 […]
Going old school here. For some reason, despite my best efforts, the video did not come out in not one, but two attempts. No biggie. Prior to the pandemic, I used to do these Conversations by phone, so let us return to yesteryear… My baseball card collecting days only go back to the mid-1960s. But […]
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 […]
Catching up of some entries that were in my “draft” box. My initial response to beginning this eight-part series on Netflix was, this is kind of boring. And these guys curse a lot. But on further review, there’s a lot to recommend this in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at one of the game’s most storied franchises. Tops […]
I came across this Substack article — “Say It Again, But Different: Sweepers, Splinkers, Slurves, and the Language That Keeps Baseball Current” by Doug Glanville. It brought to mind The Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson, one of his many books on the game. Oddly enough, on the same day, one of my Google alerts for […]
