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	<description>Brooklyn-based Sports Illustrated author Jay Jaffe&#039;s blog</description>
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		<title>The Cooperstown Casebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 20:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming July 25, 2017 from Thomas Dunne Books: THE COOPERSTOWN CASEBOOK Who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques By Jay Jaffe With a Foreword by __(TBA)__ 464 pages Tucked away in a small central New York village called Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2017/05/1993.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;The Cooperstown Casebook&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beers of the (Belated) Opening Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 23:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A belated Happy Opening Day to you all! I was very busy in the days and weeks leading up to the blessed event, pitching in on Sports Illustrated&#8216;s MLB Preview issue (cover date March 30, edited by fiancée Emma Span), for which I interviewed multiple scouts about the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams for ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/04/beers-of-the-belated-opening-day.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Beers of the (Belated) Opening Day&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>As Seen On TV on a Slow News Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MLB Network folks haven&#8217;t been calling my number lately — the afternoon schedule is filled with spring training games — but no matter. I&#8217;m now in the virtual Rolodex of the producers of Olbermann. On Monday, I made my third appearance in as many months for a breezy around-the-horn chat with Keith Olbermann about ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/03/as-seen-on-tv-on-a-slow-news-day.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;As Seen On TV on a Slow News Day&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beers of the Week: Mid-Marching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filling in the gaps on a few more brews of note, including a pair for this past week despite my ESPN El Paso radio spot — the raison d&#8217;etre of these lists in the first place — being postponed. • February 25: Smuttynose Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale Though they don&#8217;t get a ton ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/03/beers-of-the-week-mid-marching.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Beers of the Week: Mid-Marching&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beers of the Week: It&#8217;s Not All Beer and Skittles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In theory, I was supposed to do a better job of keeping up with the posts on this blog, at least when it came to beer. Alas travel, wedding planning (!) and a bit of bookpanic (a German word that roughly translates to &#8220;panic over the awesome responsibility of writing a book&#8221;) have conspired to ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/02/beers-of-the-week-ryes-and-stouts-edition.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Beers of the Week: It&#8217;s Not All Beer and Skittles&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Bridges (1927-2015)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Rocky Bridges looked like a ballplayer. In fact, he may have looked more like a ballplayer than any other ballplayer who ever lived. His head looked like a sack full of rusty nails, he kept about six inches of chewing tobacco lodged permanently in the upper recesses of his left cheek, and his uniform always ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/02/rocky-bridges-1927-2015.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Rocky Bridges (1927-2015)&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beers of the Week — and a Splash of Haterade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One reason I wanted to fire up this old blog again is to expound upon my passion for craft beer at greater length than Twitter or Untappd allow. Which isn&#8217;t to say that I&#8217;m anywhere close being to the most articulate person when it comes to discussing brews, but given a broad range of tastes ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/01/beers-of-the-week-and-a-splash-of-haterade.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Beers of the Week — and a Splash of Haterade&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Not-So-Grand Slam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amusing results when I put my Twitter account into this Poetweet system described here. I tried all three formats it offers for the four poems below; the first one is in the rondel format (two stanzas of four verses plus one of five), while the second and third are sonnets (14 lines) and the fourth ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/01/poetry-not-so-grand-slam.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Poetry Not-So-Grand Slam&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ernie Banks (1931-2014)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Jaffe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smile says it all. Even in the twilight of his baseball career — as on this 1969 Topps card, just before heading into his final season as a regular — Ernie Banks was overjoyed to be playing baseball. I&#8217;m too young to have seen Banks play, but when I came into possession of that card, one ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/01/ernie-banks-1931-2014.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Ernie Banks (1931-2014)&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nomination Accepted: The SABR Analytics Conference Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from Jacob Pomrenke of the Society for American Baseball Research, informing me that one of my articles — &#8220;The Case of the Disappearing Slugger: Where Did MLB&#8217;s Power Go?&#8221;, published last September 3 — has been selected as a finalist in the Contemporary Analysis category ...</p><p><a href="http://www.futilityinfielder.com/wordpress/2015/01/nomination-accepted-the-sabr-analytics-conference-awards.shtml" class="more-link">Continue reading &#8216;Nomination Accepted: The SABR Analytics Conference Awards&#8217; &#187;</a>]]></description>
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