The Baseball Listicle Lineup for October 17-31, 2023

My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past two weeks

Issue #131

Latest edition of this regular feature here at Now Taking the Field—a roundup of my favorite recent baseball articles, many though not all in the form of “listicles”—articles framed around a list of some sort or other. I continue to focus this for now on articles by other Substack baseball authors, and articles directly from MLB.com itself.

Here are my favorite articles for the weeks October 17-31, 2023, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:

• Arizona’s Own, by

  Joe Posnanski
  at
  JoeBlogs
  10/29/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards 'Sentenced' to Silliness, by

  Wax Pack Gods
  10/29/2023

• The "Worst" World Series Ever Has Been Pretty Epic So Far, by

  Molly Knight
  at
  The Long Game
  10/28/2023

• Friday Rewind: Deep in the Heart of Texas, by

  Joe Posnanski
  at
  JoeBlogs
  10/27/2023

• Touching bottom in 2023, by G. Scott Thomas at

  Baseball's Best (and Worst)
  10/27/2023

• We Say A Sad Farewell To "Mr. Oriole," Brooks Robinson, by Gary Livacari, at

  Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter
  10/25/2023

• Hear me out…Trout to Boston, by

  Ballpark Buzz's Newsletter
  10/24/2023

• Three-way pitchers, by G. Scott Thomas at

  Baseball's Best (and Worst)
  10/24/2023

• 5 'Wrong Guy' Baseball Cards that Still Deliver the Fun, by

  Wax Pack Gods
  10/22/2023

• Soto vs Ohtani: 2024, by Paul Semendinger, and Cooperstown Should Open Gates For Managers, by Dan Schlossberg, at

  Here's the Pitch: the IBWAA Newsletter
  10/21/2023

• Close to a crown, by G. Scott Thomas at

  Baseball's Best (and Worst)
  10/20/2023

Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com these past two weeks:

• Instant classic among greatest Game 1s in World Series history, by Andrew Simon, Sarah Langs, Daniel Kramer, 10/28/2023

• How the World Series teams were built, by Jim Callis, 10/27/2023

• Experts pick World Series winner, MVP and more, by MLB.com writers, 10/27/2023

• Ranking the 10 best bats in the World Series, by MLB.com writers, 10/27/2023

• From 100 losses to World Series in record time, by Theo DeRosa and Andrew Simon, 10/25/2023

• The best postseason performances by impending free agents, by Thomas Harrigan, 10/23/2023

• Hall of Fame announces 8-person ballot for next Era Committee vote, 10/19/2023

• Numbers don't lie: One standout prospect stat from each team, by Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, and Jim Callis, 10/18/2023

• MLB Pipeline's 2023 All-Rookie Team, by Jim Callis, 10/17/2023

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