Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
By now most of you are familiar with my caveats, so I’ll just mention them briefly: The list includes only print editions (no kindle or audio versions) because I’m old school. Second, since the rankings are updated every hour, these lists might not longer be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them. But […]
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Working my new job has thrown my life into a degree of unpredictability, with its seven-day-a-week schedule and hours that can begin as early as 4 a.m. and end after midnight. Sadly, this has taken a toll on my reading and blogging time, both here and on my other two sites, Kaplan’s Korner on Jews and […]
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For the second week in a row, I’m pleased to note that as I post my Bookshelf Conversation — this one with NPR’s Scott Simon for his new baseball book, My Cubs: A Love Story — I am once again a guest on another podcast that just went up: The Stuph Files, hosted by Peter […]
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Recently made a presentation to the Ridgewood (NJ) Rotary Club. Kind of interesting. Very knowledgable group of folks, old enough to have attended Brooklyn Dodger games as kids. This is the result, including Q&A.
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Been a bit slow lately in the conversation portion of our program, so I’m cheating a bit and posting this conversation I had as a guest of Ralph Tyko on his podcast, “In the Zone.” Honored to be included among such previous guests, Marty Appel, Peter Golenbock, and Matthew Silverman, among others. You can hear […]
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For those of you who weren’t able to listen “live” to my interview on Lincoln Live with host Dale Johnson on KFOR-AM earlier today, (even though the interview was actually taped last Friday), you can hear it here: [audio:http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LincolnLive.mp3|titles=LincolnLive] http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LincolnLive.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Just an update about my forthcoming book, 501 Books Baseball Fans Must Read Before They Die. I starting to believe this thing is really going to happen. Received the copyedited manuscript and am going through it a couple of times, for language edits and to fill in a couple of citation questions, etc. And the […]
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Some vacation. Actually it was no vacation at all. This is the first time since Aug. 1 I’ve been upright, pain-free, and clear-headed enough to post. Following my 11-seconds of fame as one of the first-pitch-throwers at a Trenton Thunder game, I’ve been suffering with a respiratory infection that had me feverish, coughing, and otherwise […]
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I’ve been informed that Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story will be aired on Long Island’s WLIW tonight at 10 p.m. Particularly appropriate in light of the story about the “Judaism & Baseball Retreat” I just posted, since several of the presenters — including Rabbis Rebecca Alpert and Michael Paley, Martin Abramowitz, and Ira […]
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Well, the first round of edits are done. Now it goes to line editing, for a more careful going over. I must say I was disappointed in myself when I got the files back and found so many typos. There are always going to be artistic conflicts over wording. Perhaps if this was a novel […]
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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
So many headlines, so little time
January 7, 2013
Some choices include: I wasn’t told there would be math on this test. Why can’t the U.S be in one time zone? Is that 12 a.m. midnight? Well, we’re off to a flying start. My first radio interview for 501, my first attempt at posting an “Event” on the Facebook page and what do I do? […]
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