Book Review: “The Baseball Talmud”
March 18, 2009 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
Howard Megdal’s The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-By-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players was a joy to read, even for an Agnostic like me.
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March 18, 2009 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
Howard Megdal’s The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-By-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players was a joy to read, even for an Agnostic like me.
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