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A Trip to the Library

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A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Hall of Name

It took me a long time to make my way through D.B. Firstman’s Hall of Name. Some of that was on me, I procured a copy just as I was in the middle of reading a mammoth critical care textbook in preparation for a soon to be COVID canceled CCEMT-P class. By the time I […]

Posted on November 19, 2020November 15, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library: Stolen Bases

Right from the start, Jennifer Ring’s novel achieves its purpose: making the reader angry. Stolen Bases isn’t just the facts about the history of women in baseball or girls in youth baseball. Rather, this is a pointed crack at the establishment. Ring doesn’t come across as angry herself, but by beginning her novel with a […]

Posted on February 12, 2020February 7, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Trip to the Library: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Is it possible to find a book both highly valuable and cringe-inducing? I’d never come across a book worthy of that distinction until I read The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. It is in equal measure one of the most important baseball books ever written and a deep look into the disturbing views of […]

Posted on January 3, 2020January 2, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover of the book Baseball Gods in Scandal by Ian S. Kahanowitz.
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A Trip to the Library: Baseball Gods in Scandal

Something I never expected when I started my own website was for people to approach me to review their book. Call me naive, but I still am a little floored whenever anyone clicks on an article let alone offers feedback or contacts me about anything related to the site. Needless to say, I was pretty […]

Posted on September 3, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Cover of The Cooperstown Casebook by Jay Jaffe.
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A Trip to the Library: The Cooperstown Casebook

My issues with the National Baseball Hall of Fame have been well documented on this site. Those views haven’t changed, but I am a fan of Jay Jaffe’s writing for FanGraphs, and that made his book The Cooperstown Casebook an easy grab while perusing a local Half Price Books a few months back. I knew […]

Posted on August 15, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
July 1, 2022

Really struggled in a higher level league in LMB, but maybe being closer to home will help him turn things around.

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July 1, 2022

I don't see how so many are falling for this messaging. We used our power to elect people who were supposed to stop what has happened. You have refused to act or do anything, so what the hell difference does it make if we keep you in power?

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June 30, 2022

Roberto Ramos se estará vistiendo de @DiablosRojosMX este fin de semana.

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