Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The day after I got off the plane from my appearance at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival (Nov. 6), my wife and I got on a plane for Paris (France, not Texas), an extension of our 25th anniversary celebration. We did the usual touristy things, but I also had the opportunity to visit the […]
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(Just substitute 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die for “a new book.” Thank you.)
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I don’t do this too often, look at how the book is doing via Amazon’s convoluted ranking system. Early on I might check it once every couple of days and was thrilled by how well it was doing, ranking as high as 9,005 among all books. And I know the window is relatively brief, that […]
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The latest author Q&A for “501 Baseball Books” is now up on the site: Tom Stanton, author of The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark and The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime (Thomas Dunne Books).
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Happy new year, everybody. Best wishes for a healthy and contented 2013. Now that the writing and production part of 501 is over, I hope to bring more fun interviews, features, and reviews. AND… New Year, new book, new blog. I just launched the stand-alone site for 501. Please visit it and like it on […]
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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
