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		<title>Throwback Thursday: Two places at once? (1992)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr. Baseball, a 1992 comedy starring Tom Selleck, was on recently so of course I watched it, even though I must have seen this &#8220;fish-out-of-water&#8221; film dozens of times. Similar to the saying about the game itself, whenever you watch, there&#8217;s always a chance that you&#8217;ll see something you never did before. And it&#8217;s true. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Jackie Robinson Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most confusing day for those keeping scorecards, as every player is wearing the celebrated Number 42. Here&#8217;s what I posted 10 years ago (&#8220;Wayback Wednesday&#8221;?). The sentiment remains the same, although the list of books about Robinson has grown since then, including, from 2026 alone: Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, March 16, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Her Own League, a novel by Liz Tomforde about the first female team owner in Major League Baseball, is among a recent top five most-read books of the past week by Bookriot.com, which posted, &#8220;Almost 25,000 Goodreads users read it this week, and it has a 4.5 average rating.&#8221; Tomforde&#8217;s novel has to remind [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve said it, but I don&#8217;t get poetry. I mean there are just so many ways to poeticize and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any definitive&#160;right way. I can&#8217;t define it, but I know what I like. I guess I go for stuff from people like Bill Littlefield and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, April 10, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:19:15 +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: The Pandemic Baseball Book Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kind of nostalgic, especially since I tested positive for COVID earlier this month. But I&#8217;m feeling much better now. The Pandemic Baseball Book Club was a way for authors to promote their books in a period where making the usual rounds to bookstores and other author events was verboten. I wrote a regular roundup of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do clothes make the man? (New City Connect unis)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know my &#8220;rules&#8221; about acquiring the caps that line the walls of my office: I (or people who gift me) at least have to be in the state where the teams plays. I don&#8217;t necessarily have to be in the stadium or even city, but I can&#8217;t just go to a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lest We Forget: Davey Lopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The stolen base maven who spent the majority of his 17-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers passed away April 8 at the age of 80. Lopes, who stolen 47 bases at the age of 40 (with just four caught-stealing), got a late start, joining the Dodgers at the age of 27 in 1972. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bits and Pieces, April 7, 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/04/07/bits-and-pieces-april-7-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tim Wiles, a past director of research for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, will give a presentation of &#8220;Got her, need her. Got her, need her,&#8221; the story of women&#8217;s professional baseball as told through baseball cards at the Guilderland Historical Society on Thursday, April 16, at the Guilderland Public Library. To celebrate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Baseball Best-Sellers, April 3, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:35 +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: “We were slaves, now we’re free. Let’s eat.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Bits and Pieces, March 31, 2026</title>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<title>More stats than you can shake a stick at</title>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/29/more-stats-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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>
		<link>https://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2026/03/28/bits-and-pieces-march-28-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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		<title>Bookshelf Review: Mets Media Guide 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Kaplan]]></dc:creator>
		<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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