The Baseball Listicle Lineup for Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2022
My favorite baseball articles, many in the form of "listicles", from the past week
Issue #25
Seventh 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 Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2022, starting with articles written by other baseball-focused Substack authors:
5 September Call-Ups Who Stoked the Baseball Card Market, Wax Pack Gods, 9/4/2022
43 Straight Games Without a Starter Winning, by Andrew Sharp, IBWAA Newsletter, 9/3/2022
Who gets the last laugh now? Maybe Albert Pujols, if and when he hits #700, by Jeff Kallman, IBWAA Newsletter, 9/2/2022
Can Anyone Stop the Dodgers, by Molly Knight, The Long Game, 8/31/2022
Remembering Tom Seaver, Two Years After His Death, by Bill Pruden, IBWAA Newsletter, 8/31/2022
Beyond those specific articles, be sure to check out the various baseball-related Substacks that I recommend.
Beyond Substack, these were my favorite articles from the writers at MLB.com this past week:
10 statistical races that could go down to the wire, by Andrew Simon, 9/4/2022
The 10 longest scoreless-inning streaks, by Andrew Simon, 9/4/2022
9 predictions certain to come true before postseason, by Anthony Castrovince, 9/1/2022
Here is every team's most underappreciated player, by Will Leitch, 9/1/2022
Every team's best September callup, by MLB.com writers, 8/31/2022
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