The Week contest: Baseball book - April 15, 2011

It's baseball season again — baseball book season, that is. Predict the name of the next baseball book to focus on some very obscure aspect of the sport or its history

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A sure as that first pitch of opening season, the annual deluge of new baseball books see the light of day.
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