Publication day today! Thanks @jaysonst.bsky.social

Thanks and great convo with you, @explodingarrow.bsky.social . Appreciate you taking the time for this

Out everywhere next Tuesday 5/13!
Still available for pre-order now

This is terrific

The Padres do right by Bryce Miller, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s graceful columnist who passed last week at 56. An empty spot in press box but he is in our hearts as we start the 2025 season.

Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will by Scott Miller This revealing report from sportswriter Miller (coauthor of Ninety Percent Mental) investigates the evolving role of baseball ma...

A great review in PW for my client @scottmillerbbl.bsky.social's forthcoming book!
www.publishersweekly.com/9780306832703

Yep Craig Counsell set the bar, this was where Dodgers had to come financially.

L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages [Plunkett, Bill] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages

Eager to read L.A. Story, new book from
@billplunkett.bsky.social available april 1, the inside story of Shohei Ohtani & #Dodgers triumphant 2024 season. Pre-order now, buy it when it comes out, read it, Bill is one of the very best so this is going to be great
www.amazon.com/L-Story-Shoh...

Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend [Whicker, Mark, Garvey, Steve] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend

Congrats & best to Mark Whicker
on publication day today of his new biography of Don Drysdale. Up and In is an engaging read written in Mark's inimitable style with his usual deft expertise on the subject. Terrific interviews, including Koufax.
www.amazon.com/Don-Drysdale...

My 26th @baseballhall.org ballot: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner.

Ichiro Suzuki missed becoming a unanimous @baseballhall.org by one vote. He received 99.7 percent of the vote. CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner are elected as well. A great day for baseball.

Farewell, Bob Uecker, we will miss you every day. What a life, what a man, what joy he brought to all of us in so many ways over so many decades. Say hello to Vin and Ernie for us as you make your way to heaven’s Bob Uecker seats, my friend. RIP and God bless the Uecker family.

There are days I miss writing about baseball more than others. Imagining the Rickey section I’d have done with @tylerkepner.bsky.social, @scottmillerbbl.bsky.social, Dave, James and our other pals has me feeling wildly nostalgic.

Congratulations to the legend, Tom Boswell, for winning the BBWAA Career Excellence Award, announced Tuesday morning at winter meetings in Dallas. Boz’s Why Time Begins On Opening Day is one of many seminal books and columns he’s written that have educated & entertained. Bravo!

Just stop it with the Golden At-Bat. Fine, Commish Rob Manfred threw out a trial balloon, and here's hoping it pops and lands immediately. It is a wretched idea. Baseball should be embracing some of its unique elements, not looking to dissolve all of them.

You too, my friend. Hope Spencer is not here though or he will see what you got him for Christmas too early!!!! Ha!! Best to Rick

I had an NL MVP ballot, and I can now reveal it:

1. Shohei Ohtani
2. Francisco Lindor
3. Marcel Ozuna
4. Ketel Marte
5. William Contreras
6. Bryce Harper
7. Willy Adames
8. Kyle Schwarber
9. Mookie Betts
10. Manny Machado

Writes David on working with O.J. Simpson in Naked Gun movies: "Although he actually improved with each film, his acting remained a lot like his murdering--he got away with it, but nobody really believed him."

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker & Jim Abrahams will have you laughing as the movie did. An oral history, David gets off a great line talking about bringing @kareemabduljabaar.bsky.social into the movie & working with athletes:

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv & the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé
is great fun & delivers on several fronts: Film, music & icons. I wondered for years why Paul Schaffer was on record but not BB film, & answer to that is here, too

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker is an ambitious idea executed very well. Story of how game & city grew together from late 1800s thru WWII. Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Hal Chase, Mordecai Three-Finger Brown, NY politicians, characters galore

The Tao of the Backup Catcher is as gracefully written as I would expect from @bytimbrown.bsky.social with deep respect and empathy for all of who toil away at one of most overlooked positions in the game. Erik Kratz riding shotgun here is sometimes touching, sometimes funny & always fun.

Been meaning to give shout out to handful of books I've read in past couple of months: The Last of His Kind, Andy McCullough's terrific biography of Clayton Kershaw, delivers rich detail & deep insight. Absolute pleasure to read an author with masterful knowledge of his subject

Why Managers Are More Important Than Ever Podcast Episode · Baseball Isn’t Boring · 11/19/2024 · 48m

Fun hanging with @bradfo for his @BBisntBoring podcast this week

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Seems better over here already.

Let's try this: a Starter Pack of Baseball HOF voters. I'll keep it updated as best I can. go.bsky.app/SxjyF22