Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Take a look at the video in the sidebar of my trip to Yankees Fantasy Camp. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago. I was down there to cover the brand-new “kosher camper component” for the New Jersey Jewish News (an extended version appeared in Yankees 2010 Annual, a publication of Maple Street Press). […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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… but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” My wife an I recently attended several movies at our local film festival, once of which was Late Night, the new Mindy Kaling/Emma Thomson comedy, which has received glowing reviews from some major sources. Long story short, I hated it. I found […]
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“Die Hard” Phillies fan? He wasn’t much better at BP, either.
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Every year, I buy a pack or two of Topps baseball cards, just to see what they’re up to. At the risk of sounding like a GOML (“Get off my lawn”) grump, I firmly believe the cards were “better” when I was a kid. Sure, the photography and production methods have improved, the colors are […]
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A zissen Pesach to all my landsmen baseball friends out there. From the site Make your model or family seders a home run with The Baseball Haggadah, connecting two rites of spring, baseball and the story of Passover. By holding up the Exodus story next to the concept of a beloved national pastime, Rabbi Forman casts […]
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Just finished Ron Darling’s new book, 108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game (with Daniel Paisner, who also worked on Darling’s 2016 book, Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life). It’s fairly standard fare. Darling relates stories about memorable players, […]
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I am not prone to using profanity on any of my blogs but when I picked up my MLB Preview, what did I see? A photo of Le’veon Bell, the NY Jets big deal. Now, I know that the baseball annuals tailor their covers according to region, but this? Inexcusable. There shouldn’t be anything other […]
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A semi-regular (I guess that sounds better than “irregular”) attempt to catch up on the baseball book and other news wince my last similar posting. * NY Daily News sportswriter/author Bill Madden contributed this list of the best baseball books of all time. All are worthy of the accolades (A Day in the Bleachers, The […]
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Full disclosure: Prior to this, I have never watched more than a few minutes of DWTS in any of its previous seasons. I know sports figures have competed and some have acquitted themselves very well, but I can only guess the idea to have a bunch of athletes as a stand-alone theme was one of […]
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Both figuratively and literally… I wrote about Roth’s passing last week. Today I found this piece, “A Game So Grand and Beautiful” — Philip Roth On Writing and Baseball, in Town Topics, a Princeton, NJ, community paper. Kind of got a kick out of the writer’s comparing an old photo of Roth to one of Hank […]
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After doing some editing to the site by remove the “sticky post” announcing the release of my latest book, Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War, which came out just about a year ago, I happened to notice that yesterday’s post about the weekly baseball best-sellers was the 5,555th […]
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Since you could technically watch a video if you have a TV or device on your bookshelf… Lewis Black is one of my favorite comedians. Smart, politically savvy, cranky, and old like me. And profane, so EXTREMELY FOUL LANGUAGE HERE!!! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED HT to Shawn R., himself a staunch Orioles fan, for the link.
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Too bad I didn’t know about this before. Could have started a GoFundMe campaign. Beverly Hills home of Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg pulls in $7.75 million
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Previous entries to the Bookshelf on Dr. King include this piece on his baseball connections. And another here. And this one, titled “Baseball and Dr. King.” Two books published in 2017 — The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age and One Nation Under Baseball: How the […]
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Skip to the relevant part at about 50 seconds…
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(Posted early Saturday, but the time references refer to Friday.) The second full day began with “A Celebration of 70 Years: Jackie Robinson’s Journey,” with panelists Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch Rickey: The Ferocious Gentleman among other baseball titles; author and former NY Times columnist William C. Rhoden; and Della Britton Baeza, CEO of the […]
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I know, I know. “Hey, Ron,” you say, “What’s going on? You don’t call, you don’t write…” Things have been a bit hectic since I lost my job as sports and features editor of the NJ Jewish News last September due to a corporate takeover. Although I was able to distract myself for a month […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
The first harbingers of spring — UPDATE
January 27, 2018
If you’ve been following the blog for at least a couple of years, you know I take great pleasure around this time because this is when the baseball magazines hit the stores. But like any person my age, I think things were better “back in the day.” Thanks to 24/7 spots media, the idea of […]
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