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NOT REALLY A BOOK REVIEW: Some Favorite Lines from “Dollar Sign on the Muscle”
This out-of-print classic was easily one of the greatest baseball books I’ve ever read. A treasure, in the fullest sense of the word. Author Kevin Kerrane spent a year, 1981, hanging around with a wide...
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The 2013 Baseball Prospectus Just Arrived: What’s It Say About the Mets?
Jimmy: I have a long, sordid history with Baseball Prospectus. It’s like the old college girlfriend I lusted after, learned from, then discovered she was a little batshit crazy, so ditched, but kept...
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INTERWEBS — Jordany Fan Fiction, Too Many K’s and Other...
Okay, folks, let’s take it Around the Horn. And remember our motto, “If it’s not snappy, it’s crappy!” * Thank you, Howard Megdal, for this piece of ballsy brilliance. Over at Howard’s The LoHud Mets...
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NOT REALLY A BOOK REVIEW: “A False Spring,” by Pat Jordan
NOTE: The Essential Baseball Library has become a small, personal project for me. I hope to continue to build the list as I encounter great books, but also aspire to someday read each one on the...
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STICKER SHOCK: Guessing the Numbers, Keeping Track of 51 Player Contracts
When it comes to guessing player contracts, I have sometimes been correct! Thank you, thank you very much. However, like Sandy Alderson, I’ve also been surprised. And I think if we balanced it on the...
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A Quick Comic, and Back to Football
A friend recently shared with me one of his all-time favorite New Yorker cartoons, so I’m passing it along here, because it’s kind of perfect. The cartoon is by Michael Crawford, who deserves the...
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Staring Out the Window, Waiting for Spring: A Few Quotes to Help Get Us...
“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” –...
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Look At What They’re Saying About the Mets in “Baseball Prospectus 2014″
I’ve been buying various baseball annuals since the mid-1980′s. Beginning in 2000, I’ve picked up Baseball Prospectus every year. I have a love/hate relationship with those good folks — the...
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Examing Another Possible Cause of Arm Injuries: Sabermetrics
A few months ago Jimmy wrote a great post that included information from the book, Summer of 68, by Tim Wendel. Intrigued, I purchased the book, and it proved to be a fun read. 1968 was the “Year of...
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The X-Met Files: The 44th Anniversary of Doc Ellis & the LSD No-No
As far as I understand it, based solely on things I’ve read in magazines, it’s difficult to tie your shoes while on LSD. Meanwhile, there are others who’ve maintained that they actually become better...
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