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Best Baseball Reads for Opening Day

Slate highlights blogs, articles to kick off the season

By Chip Bayers,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 30, 2008 5:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – Want to get a literary start on the baseball season? Slate sports columnist Josh Levin highlights four great reads appropriate for opening day, including outspoken Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's blog 38 Pitches, where his output hasn't slowed despite the shoulder injury keeping him off the field. Other recommendations:

  • Rany on the Royals, where long-suffering Royals fan Rany Jazayerli holds forth
  • a profile of former Met and Phillie star Lenny Dykstra in the March 24 edition of the New Yorker
  • Tom Friend's article on Tony Gwynn Jr. and Trevor Hoffman from a recent ESPN: The Magazine, which gives the backstory on the rally last season started by the Brewers' Gwynn, which knocked Hoffman and the Padres out the playoffs.

Rany on the Royals blog about the woes of the Kansas City Royals and players such as pitcher Zack Greinke.
Rany on the Royals blog about the woes of the Kansas City Royals and players such as pitcher Zack Greinke.   (AP Photo/ Ron Kuenstler)
Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is out for the first plat of the season, but his blog, 38 Pitches, is worth reading.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is out for the first plat of the season, but his blog, 38 Pitches, is worth reading.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Milwaukee Brewers' Tony Gwynn started a rally on the last day of the season last year that beat the San Diego Padres and his good friend Trevor Hoffman and kept San Diego out of the playoffs.
Milwaukee Brewers' Tony Gwynn started a rally on the last day of the season last year that beat the San Diego Padres and his good friend Trevor Hoffman and kept San Diego out of the playoffs.   (AP Photo/ Ron Kuenstler)
San Diego Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman couldn't get one out last year that he needed to get the Padres into the playoffs.
San Diego Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman couldn't get one out last year that he needed to get the Padres into the playoffs.   (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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