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You Want Baseball? We Got Baseball.

Here are 28 MVP-caliber articles from Tablet’s archives to quench your baseball fix

by
Jonathan Zalman
April 07, 2016
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Fenway Park, October 24, 2013. Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Fenway Park, October 24, 2013. Jamie Squire/Getty Images

Every day this week—Major League Baseball’s opening stretch—we have featured one story on The Scroll about baseball. We began by watching Jewish baseball players striking out, because watching people fail can be fun, and because it also provides for a life lesson. Then we learned about the intersection of Donald Trump and baseball, which, as you can imagine, is a tinge ugly. And yesterday, Tablet columnist Marjorie Ingall washed away the Trump grime by bringing us a list of excellent Jewish baseball books to read to the kids in your life, because youths and baseball are a match made in heaven, by which I mean Fenway Park.

We’ve covered quite a few topic about baseball and baseball-playing Jews over the years here at Tablet, and these articles are well worth a visit. They should get you amply amped for the 162-game season during which I am sure you will find yourself at a ballpark. And if you don’t, make it happen. Go alone. Bring a crossword. Buy a Bud. Lather yourself in SPF-50. Close your eyes and listen to the sounds. Breathe in.

Slugger, a Vox Tablet podcast

Lesson From Losers, by Marjorie Ingall

Play Ball by Sara Ivry

Jews Who Love the Mets by Hannah Vaitsblit and Jonathan Zalman

Shawn Green, BuJew by Marc Tracy

Spiritual Moneyball by Liel Liebowitz

Jonathan Zalman is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn.