The Baseball Listicle Lineup for October 17-31, 2023

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 at 10/29/2023

• 5 Baseball Cards 'Sentenced' to Silliness, by 10/29/2023

• The "Worst" World Series Ever Has Been Pretty Epic So Far, by at 10/28/2023

• Friday Rewind: Deep in the Heart of Texas, by at 10/27/2023

• Touching bottom in 2023, by G. Scott Thomas at 10/27/2023

• We Say A Sad Farewell To "Mr. Oriole," Brooks Robinson, by Gary Livacari, at 10/25/2023

• Hear me out…Trout to Boston, by 10/24/2023

• Three-way pitchers, by G. Scott Thomas at 10/24/2023

• 5 'Wrong Guy' Baseball Cards that Still Deliver the Fun, by 10/22/2023

• Soto vs Ohtani: 2024, by Paul Semendinger, and Cooperstown Should Open Gates For Managers, by Dan Schlossberg, at 10/21/2023

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