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• The Bookshelf Conversations #207: Steve Biondolillo
I don’t know how many times I’ve said it, but I don’t get poetry. I mean there are just so many ways to poeticize and there doesn’t seem to be any definitive right way. I can’t define it, but I know what I like. I guess I go for stuff from people like Bill Littlefield and […]...2026
• Mazel tov, John W. Miller
Miller — a recent guest on “The Bookshelf Conversations” — visited Cincinnati (or rather Covington, KY) to accept the coveted CASEY Award from Spitball Magazine. Miller won for his best-selling biography, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball. Michael Shannon, editor of Spitball, was an even more recent BC guest. Photo ...2026
• The Bookshelf Conversations #206: Mike Shannon

Mike Shannon and I go way back. One of the first book reviews I ever had published was with Spitball Magazine, where he serves as editor-in-chief. He is also one of the only Bookshelf Conversation guests I have ever broken bread with. A few years back, I had the opportunity to attend a CASEY Awards ceremony […]...2026
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #205: An Artistic Tripleheader
SABR Day is fast approaching. The Elysian Fields Chapter (Northern New Jersey) will hold its annual event at historic Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson, NJ, on Saturday, February 7. The roster of guests includes artists Todd Radom, Ellen Lindner, and Brian Kong. Each of the trio has their own unique […]...2026
• The Bookshelf Conversations #203: Robert Fitts

I always enjoy chatting with creative types about their various baseball projects, but this was was even more fun because I got to relive last year’s trip to Japan. After reading Robert Fitts’ latest — In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball — it reminded me of the excitement of being over […]...2026
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #202: John W. Miller

John Miller says in our Conversation that he was actually coaching a high school game when he found out that The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball won the popular CASEY Award, given by Spitball Magazine to the best baseball book of the year. That’s sounds like a scene out of […]...2026
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #190: Danny Gallagher
Next to the Mets, my favorite team is (was) the Montreal Expos. My maternal side comes from Montreal and I consider the time spent there on vacations and the five summers working at a sleep-away camp in the Laurentians among the happiest of my life. My Aunt Lily lived in Outremont, a neighborhood a long […]...2025
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #178: Kevin Baker

Take two. Don’t know what happened, but the original post from earlier this week disappeared like a Doc Gooden curveball. Not even a draft of it, so I’m trying to recreate it as faithfully as possible. It seems to many outside the area that New Yorkers have an inflated image of themselves (at least those […]...2024
• The Bookshelf Conversations #169: Jonathan Mayo

As I mention in the Conversation, there’s much more attention paid to the draft from a fan point of view in recent years. Go back a decade, and I can’t remember the whole proceedings being covered by the media from start to finish. Now, it’s almost “appointment television.” I must admit, I don’t follow the […]...2023
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #198: Rick Cerrone

When I was about 10 years old, I got into a heap of trouble because I spent some of the change from an errand on a copy of The Sporting News and Baseball Digest. Total cost: $1. In retrospect, I understand the difficult financial situation my family was in at the time, but at that age, I […]...2025
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #194: Robbie Hart

If you’d asked me a few years ago about my favorite teams, I definitely would have said the Mets, followed by the Montreal Expos. But now? It just might be the reverse, since I’ve been living in the past lately. I spent many a happy summer in Montreal, where the maternal side of my family […]...2025
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #193: Robbie Hart

If you’d asked me a few years ago about my favorite teams, I definitely would have said the Mets, followed by the Montreal Expos. But now? It just might be the reverse, since I’ve been living in the past lately. I spent many a happy summer in Montreal, where the maternal side of my family […]...2025
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #207: Steve Biondolillo
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• The Bookshelf Conversations #205: An Artistic Tripleheader
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• Where have all the young men gone? Doug Glanville on the circle of life
Doug Glanville published The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View back in 2010. Hard to believe but it’s been fifteen years since I had him on as a guest for an early version of The Bookshelf Conversations. Glanville, who played for the Phillies, Cubs, and Rangers over a nine-year career, became an […]...2025
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