Marc Stein has 73,369 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #11 on Substack's Sports Bestsellers board. 64 publications recommend them, 9 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 24.
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 73,369
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 52K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- Thousands
- bestseller badge 1,000+
- Recommended by
- 64
- +9 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 24
- Bestsellers rank
- #11
- Sports
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 73,369 | −5 | 52K+ | Thousands |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 73,374 | 52K+ | Thousands |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Bestsellers | #11 | #11 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Bestsellers | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
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Recommendations
64 publications recommend Marc Stein; 9 started in the last 30 days. Marc Stein recommends 24, and 11 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2022-04 | 1 |
| 2022-05 | 1 |
| 2022-06 | 4 |
| 2023-04 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 1 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2023-08 | 1 |
| 2023-11 | 1 |
| 2024-02 | 1 |
| 2024-08 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 5 |
| 2026-02 | 3 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 12 |
| 2026-06 | 12 |
| 2026-07 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 9 |
Recommended by
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Recommends
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar331k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
Mark Brus170k followers · started May 2023- Ethan Strauss105k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
- Royce Webb69k followers · started Nov 2023 · mutual
- John Canzano65k followers · started Jun 2022 · mutual
- Tyler Dunne44k followers · started Nov 2022 · mutual
Henry Abbott31k followers · started Nov 2023- Zach Lowe31k followers · started Oct 13, 2026 · mutualnew
Henry Winter26k followers · started May 2024- Jonathan Macri22k followers · started Jun 2022 · mutual
- Dan Rafael18k followers · started May 2022 · mutual
- Iztok Franko7.6k followers · started Aug 2024 · mutual
- Keith Smith2.9k followers · started Feb 2024 · mutual
- Charley Walters820 followers · started Oct 13, 2026 · mutualnew
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other Sports writers with 50,000 or more followers (11 writers in that group), but not Marc Stein.
- recommends 3 of themNFLTeamBuilder
- recommends 2 of themNate Silver@natesilver
- recommends 2 of them
W. Kamau Bell@wkamaubell - recommends 2 of themHenry Abbott@truehoop
- recommends 2 of them
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- recommends 2 of themSportsTalk
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