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					<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;re in the Passover season, I thought this piece from 2019 would be appropriate. Click here for more information about the book.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC featured two pieces about baseball recently. On March 28, Sportswriter Ken Dawidoff and pediatrician Dr. Harley Rotbart spoke about their new book, 101 Lessons from the Dugout: What Baseball and Softball Can Teach Us About the Game of Life (jump to the 56:00 mark). A few days later, A.M. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My cup does not runneth over</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Because you could obviously put one of these on your bookshelf&#8230; I have a few baseball-themed drinking containers on my shelves, but this cup will not be among them. (The belt is a nice touch.) It goes for $75 at Dodger Stadium but I took this picture from eBay, where it&#8217;s listed for $239 plus [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Preview Issues: A Dying Breed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baseball preview issues. I really don&#8217;t know who the audience for these paper dinosaurs is anymore. As a pre-Internet kid, I looked forward to that period in early spring when they hit the news stands en masse. Some were Some were just &#8220;one-year wonders.&#8221; Others, like Sport, The Sporting News, Street &#38; Smith, Inside Sports, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was looking at the&#160;2026 New York Mets Media Guide&#160;for a recent review, I noted how the players&#8217; pages highlighted specific OG statistics like home runs, RBI, batting average, wins, strikeouts, and ERA. Of course, nowadays we have pitch rotation, bat speed, exit velocity, launch angles, WAR, BABIP, and more than I can keep [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, March 28, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day&#8221; category: With so many books, it&#8217;s a rare thing when Publisher&#8217;s Weekly does something with a baseball title, but here&#8217;s what they had to say about Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America&#8217;s First Baseball Hero, by Thomas Gilbert. From&#160;America Magazine: The Jesuit Review [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, March 27, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. 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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calling Carnac the Magnificent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We miss you, Johnny Carson. This is the time of year when all the baseball pundits are making their predictions on everything from World Series to award winners to who will be the first manager to be fired. I don&#8217;t have the time (or interest) to study every one and since I have a short [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can it really be 30-some years since I had a part-time job with STATS Inc. as a ballpark reporter? It was such a cool gig. I got to go to Shea Stadium, sit in a special spot in the press box, plug in my 10-pound laptop, connect it to a modem (kids, ask your parents), [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TV or Not TV, redux</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/26/tv-or-not-tv-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apropos to yesterday&#8217;s post about the challenges of finding your team on TV these days, here&#8217;s what The Athletic had to say about baseball&#8217;s debut on Netflix by Ken &#8220;The Bow Tie&#8221; Rosenthal: That broadcast was &#8230; something Preface: Producing a baseball broadcast is difficult. I mean, it must be, because every time we get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Throwback Thursday: Official Baseball 1945</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rather than pull something out of the Bookshelf archives, I thought for something a bit different this week. The good news is that I got to watch the Yankees beat the Giants, 7-0, in the season opener. Normally, I would not be able to watch a game with an 8 p.m. start because I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Commentary: TV or not TV?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like many things for people of my age, things used to be easier (though not necessarily better), when I was a kid. Is it just me, or is it getting harder and harder to find out were to watch your team&#8217;s games? Used to be you could only see them on your local broadcast channels. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mazel tov, John W. Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Miller &#8212; a recent guest on &#8220;The Bookshelf Conversations&#8221; &#8212; visited Cincinnati (or rather Covington, KY) to accept the coveted CASEY Award from&#160;Spitball Magazine. Miller won for his best-selling biography,&#160;The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball. Michael Shannon, editor of&#160;Spitball, was an even more recent BC guest. Photo by Andy Furman/NKyTribune)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Throwback Thursday: Say it ain&#8217;t so, Calico Joe</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/19/throwback-thursday-say-it-aint-so-calico-joe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deciding what to post for TT is always challenging, but one of my Google Alerts today was &#8220;How John Grisham Lost His Love for Baseball&#8221; from Crimereads.com. Perfect.&#160; It that reminded me of the time I reviewed his 2012 baseball novel, Calico Joe, for Bookreporter,com, reprinted here for your convenience: John Grisham is highly regarded [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ir, Venezuela</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baseball Cards]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Felicitaciones a Venezuela for winning the World Baseball Classic by beating Team USA last night, 3-2. Needless to say, Topps has taken advantage of the event by producing cards heralding the WBC. Also, in honor of Venezuela&#8217;s unlikely win over Team USA, Sports Collectors Daily posted &#8220;The 25 Most Collectible Venezuelan Players of All-Time.&#8221; Number [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, continued</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/17/st-patricks-day-continued/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irish baseball]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baseball-Reference offers this list of players and managers who were born in Ireland. Back in the day &#8212; and I&#8217;m talking about the late 19th century &#8212; the New York Giants were famous for their collection of personnel of Irish descent, including manager John McGraw and players like Roger Bresnahan, Roger Connor, Tim Keefe, &#8220;Turkey [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bookshelf Mini-Review: 2026 Baseball Almanac</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/17/bookshelf-mini-review-2026-baseball-almanac/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2026 Baseball Almanac: The Ultimate Guide to Records, Icons, and Unforgettable Feats: Discover Epic Moments, Unforgettable Heroes, and Historic Achievements, by Jasper Weatherstone Readers of this blog know my feelings towards superlatives in the title, so strike one. Strike two is the use of the word &#8220;almanac.&#8221; When I was a kid, baseball almanacs basically [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>T&#8217;rowback Tuesday for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/16/trowback-tuesday-for-st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA["Oddballs"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick's Day]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a partner to &#8220;Throwback Thursday&#8221;&#8230; In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, I hauled out this article I wrote for&#160;Irish America&#160;magazine some 13 years ago on the influence that community had on the national pastime. Irish ballplayers have helped to shape baseball ever since the game took its first foundering steps on the playing fields [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, March 13, 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. 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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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