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		<title>Calling Collect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here are a few gems from recent Sports Collectors Daily alerts: &#8220;Bobby Murcer: A Yankee Life in 7 Cards&#8220; &#8220;Aaron Judge 1/1 Superfractor Sells for $838,750 &#8212; The Feel-Good Story Behind It&#8221; (I wonder: will these cards be worth anything when the zombie apocalypse comes?) &#8220;Packed Dodgers Fan Photo Album at Auction Takes You Back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From the Silver Screen to the Idiot Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baseball: The Movie includes a chapter on what I call &#8220;baseball-adjacent&#8221; films. That is, movies that include baseball but don&#8217;t necessarily have the national pastime as the main subject. These include, according to author Noah Gittell, One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest; City Slickers; Twilight; Good Will Hunting;&#160;and Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off, among a few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, May 18, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 15:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Skinner]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reviewed Nolan: The Singular Life of an American Original, by Tim Brown. Look for my piece on the book on Bookreporter.com later this week. LocalNewsPasadena ran this profile of Brown. Wish I could be there for this one: Michael Schur and Joe Posnanski, authors of Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, May 15, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:49:24 +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>Throwback Thursday: Quiz Time, Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A relatively recent throwback. Last week I asked the question&#8230; What is this? Joe DiMaggio Campanella Brooklyn&#8217;s got a winning team Mickey Mantle California baseball No one got the right answer which is: These baseball references are in the lyrics to Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire.&#8221; (You might even want to include &#8220;Marilyn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, May 13, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 19:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;New Book &#8230; Brings St. Louis Baseball History Back to Life.&#8221; Said book is titled 50 Forgotten Cardinals and &#8220;uncovers the stories of players whose contributions to the St. Louis Cardinals have faded from mainstream memory&#8212;but remain essential to the rich fabric of the team&#8217;s history,&#8221; according to a press release. It seems to only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lest We Forget: Ted Turner and Bobby Cox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two legends in Atlanta Braves history have passed away within days of each other. Ted Turner, the irascible former owner of the team from 1976-2007, died May 6 at the age of 87. In addition to owning the team, Turner founded CNN and started the superstation TBS. (A personal note: when I was in grad [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pop Quiz: When I say ____, what do you think of?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is this? Joe DiMaggio Campanella Brooklyn&#8217;s got a winning team Mickey Mantle California baseball First one to get it right wins an autographed copy of&#160;501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, May 8, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:18 +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>Throwback Thursday: Bartolo goes yard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home runs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A day late. Oopsie. If I&#160;had been on time, it would have marked the tenth anniversary of &#8220;one of the greatest moments in the history of baseball,&#8221; according to Mets announcer Gary Cohen. Colon published his memoirs, Big Sexy: In His Own Words, in 2020, two years after he retired at the age of 45. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another reason why predictive baseball magazines can be useless</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It looks like Tigers ace Tarik Skubal will be out for a significant portion of the season. This kind of renders the pre-season prognostications moot and is especially true when considering print publications. &#160; &#160; Skubal, along with the Pirates&#8217; Paul Skenes, was the subject of a feature article in Athlon (&#8220;Pair of Aces: Tarik [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lest We Forget: John Sterling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The long-time voice of the New York Yankees died today (May 4) at the age of 87. Sterling was famous for his home run calls &#8212; &#8220;It is high. It is far. It is&#8230;gone!&#8221; &#8212; along with pet names and phrases he employed such as, &#8220;All rise. Here comes the Judge.&#8221; Here&#8217;s his obituary by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, May 1, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:11:46 +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>Throwback Thursday: Baseball Best-Sellers, April 29, 2016</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/30/throwback-thursday-baseball-best-sellers-april-29-2016/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So these are the titles of print editions that made the BBS list just about ten years ago. In those days, I did not regularly include Kindle editions or audiobooks You will notice two books that are still favorites today:&#160;Moneyball and&#160;The Science of Hitting.&#160; I guess these would constitute &#8220;classics,&#8221; having stood the test of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, April 29, 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Steve Kettman, a former Bookshelf Conversation guest, discusses his work on Dusty Baker&#8217;s new book, Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life&#160;(out June 9). A reminder: The National Baseball Poetry Festival will be held May 7-10 at Polar Park in Worcester, MA. I had a BC with Steve Biondilillo, founder of the Festival, earlier this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>And the awards keep on coming</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/28/and-the-awards-keep-on-coming/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Sandy Koufax for winning Baseball Digest&#8217;s sixth annual Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement appears in the May/June 2026 issue. &#8220;The name Sandy Koufax has become a synonym for &#8216;great pitcher,'&#8221; according to Baseball Digest publisher David Fagley. Koufax turned 90 this past December and still looks like he could toss an inning or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Nightstand Review</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/28/the-nightstand-review/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember where I first saw an article about nightstand books, but it made me stop and think. At any one time, I am juggling my reading. Ninety percent is baseball, but you have to mix in other things just to spice it up. This is what&#8217;s currently on my nightstand. I always try [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bookshelf Reviews: NY-Centric 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/25/bookshelf-reviews-ny-centric-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I reviewed four New York-themed baseball titles for Bookreporter.com last week, including: The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner&#160;by Mike Vaccaro Mickey &#38; Billy: The Glory and Tragedy of a Yankee Friendship,&#160;by Tony Castro The Heyday of Willie, Buke and Mickey: New York City Baseball&#8217;s Golden [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Throwback Thursday: Vermont Baseball Redux</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/23/throwback-thursday-vermont-baseball-redux/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional baseball]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wasn&#8217;t expecting to have more to say about Vermont baseball following Tuesday&#8217;s post but&#8230; We discovered a library on the Smugglers Notch premises, the type where guests &#8220;borrow&#8221; books and leave behind those they have finished while vacationing, rather than schlep them back home. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I had read [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rooting for clothes?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why do fans root for a specific team? Is it a generational thing? &#8220;My grandfather and father were Yankee fans, so that&#8217;s who I root for.&#8221; &#8220;My dad was a Yankees fan, so I root for the Mets, just to piss him off.&#8221; So if a team decides to change its look, would that make [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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