The Baseball Listicle Lineup for Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2022
Issue #36
Latest edition of this weekly feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles. Somewhat similar to my own writing topics, I tend to like “listicles” the best—articles that are either written in list form or that make heavy use of lists and charts of data, players, rankings, etc. I’ll of course include other favorite baseball articles in these weekly round-ups, but you’ll find most will be of that type. I’ll especially be focusing on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself, but I sometimes do read articles from other sources too.
Here are my favorite articles for the week Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
Dominican Aces: Celebrating Juan Marichal And Pedro Martinez, by Bill Pruden, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 10/3/2022
Dodgers Win 110 Games, Tying 1927 Yankees and 1909 Pirates for Fifth-Most Wins in MLB History, by Molly Knight, at The Long Game, 10/2/2022
5 Old Baseball Books to Warm Your October Nights, by Wax Pack Gods, 10/2/2022
Happy 77th to Rod Carew!, by Joe Posnanski, at JoeBlogs, 10/1/2022
There is Only One MVP, by Ray Kuhn, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 9/30/2022
Voters Face Tough Call in Deciding 2022 NL Cy Young Award, by Dan Schlossberg, at Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter, 9/30/2022
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com this past week:
15 facts about Judge's historic season, by David Adler, 10/4/2022
Ranking contenders' urgency from most title starved to least, by Anthony Castrovince, 10/3/2022
Every postseason contender's biggest weakness, by David Adler, 10/2/2022
Persistence paying off for Bañuelos in Pittsburgh, by Justice delos Santos, 10/1/2022
Realmuto makes history with 20-20 season, by Todd Zolecki, 9/30/2022
And finally, if you are interested in daily, yet quick-read, baseball-related email newsletters, you can’t go wrong with these three:
Baseball Reference Newsletter - recaps of yesterday's top performers, a look ahead at today's games, unique milestones and Stathead spotlights, and "On This Day" and "Born This Day" lists.
MLB Morning Lineup - links to the latest articles, videos, and more from MLB
Horsehide Trivia - a challenging baseball trivia question each day, from D. Bruce Brown