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The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building A New Kind of Baseball Team
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller2016 selection · Nonfiction
The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building A New Kind of Baseball Team
The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building A New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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