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		<title>Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pure serendipity is the only way I can explain how I came to be at Pawtucket&#8217;s McCoy stadium a few weeks ago to see the PawSox, Boston&#8217;s AAA team, take on the Syracuse Chiefs the farm team of the Washington Nationals.  I had opened the morning paper and, only two hours away, lay a perfect game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball&#8217;s First Black Player &#8212; Moses Fleetwood Walker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All across Major League Baseball, April 15th is Jackie Robinson Day&#8211;commenmorating the day in 1947 when Robinson first saw action as a Brooklyn Dodger.   Most people think Jackie was the first African American to play in the majors, however, before Robinson, there was Moses Fleetwood Walker.
Walker first played for the Toledo Blue Sox of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2011/04/baseballs-first-black-player-moses-fleetwood-walker/</link>
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		<title>Playoff Probabilites &#8212; A &#8220;Code Blue&#8221; Medical Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we used a cooking metaphor to describe the likelihood of each MLB team making, or in most cases, not making the post season.  As we get closer to the end of the regular season, I thought a more apt metaphor was need, a medical condition classification. 
 &#8221;Code Blue&#8221; is used in medical parlance to indicate that a patient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/09/playoff-probabilites-a-code-blue-medical-primer/</link>
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		<title>Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen Presedential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin appear many times on TV political talk shows.   I have also heard her speak on several occasions about her love for the Brooklyn Dodgers.  You can imagine mydelight when I came across a copy of her 1997 book Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir at a used book sale.  A favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/wait-till-next-year-a-memoir-by-doris-kearns-goodwin/</link>
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		<title>Did the NY Giants Steal the Signs for Thomson&#8217;s Shot Heard Round the World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BoB&#8217;s own &#8220;Mythbuster&#8221; Bill Miller will be &#8220;investigating&#8221; some of the most talked about stories and lore from baseball&#8217;s historical past.  This article focuses on Bobby Thomson&#8217;s Shot Heard Round the World.
The recent death of former Giants star Bobby Thomson, who hit perhaps the most famous home run in baseball history on October 3, 1951, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/did-the-ny-giants-steal-the-signs-for-bobby-thomsons-1951-homer/</link>
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		<title>Interview with the Baseball Undertaker: Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we posted Part I of our interview with a man named Bill Lee, who wrote The Baseball Necrology, a book profiling the lives of deceased pro baseball players, and concurrently runs The Baseball Necrology Live, an Internet update of the same premise.
During the course of our interview with Bill, we learned that he lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/interview-with-the-baseball-undertaker-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>A few more words about Bobby Thompson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s a bit of a heart-warming day to be a baseball fan.  Considering that the Miracle at Coogan&#8217;s Bluff occurred nearly 60 years ago, and that the Polo Grounds has been a housing development for the past 45 years, it is gratifying to see the outpouring of Internet affection for Bobby Thompson and his dramatics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/a-few-more-words-about-bobby-thompson/</link>
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		<title>Robert Brown &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Thomson (1923 &#8211; 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In memory of Bobby Thomson&#8217;s passing today, we are reposting two recent articles from Books on Baseball.  The first article is a review of a recent book about &#8220;The shot heard round the world&#8221; while the second article is about the various broadcasters who had a part in this historical baseball moment.
Book Review: Miracle Ball: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/robert-brown-bobby-thomson-1923-2010/</link>
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		<title>Ray Chapman, Killed by Pitched Ball August 17, 1920</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 16, 1920, in the late afternoon at the Polo Grounds, Ray Chapman stepped into the batter&#8217;s box for what would be the very last time.  The 29 year old Cleveland Indians&#8217; shortstop, known as &#8220;Chappie&#8221;,  squared around to bunt off the Yankee&#8217;s Carl Mays.  The submariner&#8217;s pitch was inside, Chapman was unable to duck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/ray-chapman-killed-by-pitched-ball-august-17-1920/</link>
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		<title>Curveball:  The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone by Martha Ackmann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few box scores remain.   Very few written records to account for her splendid achievements on the field.  No SLG, OBP, RISP, WHIP, CqStG, WARP, or VORP to measure her success.
Statistics do not tell the whole story of any ballplayer&#8217;s life.   In the case of Toni Stone, arguably the greatest woman ever to play professional baseball [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.booksonbaseball.com/2010/08/curveball-the-remarkable-story-of-toni-stone-by-martha-ackmann/</link>
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