Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Sorry, couldn’t think of a pithy headline, I’m that blasé. Say what you want about the guy — his arrogance, his ego, his need for attention, etc. — I think he nevertheless should be accorded the same due process as anyone else. Except DP doesn’t seem to apply to athletes. A lot of chatter on […]
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The journalism world lost another icon with the passing of Mike Wallace, the veteran CBS newsman known to more recent viewers as one of the original members of the 60 Minutes team. But Wallace, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 93, was also a straight news reporter and anchor, as well as, […]
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From ACTA Sports, publisher of the Bill James Hold Mine 2008: Bill James…will appear on the CBS TV news show 60 Minutes on Sunday March 30. The program will air at 7:00pm ET/PT. Morley Safer and the 60 Minutes crew interviewed James over the course of three days at the World Champion Boston Red Sox […]
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A couple of entries ago, I pondered how experts in body language might assess Roger Clemens’ appearance on 60 Minutes. Ask and ye shall receive. Yesterday the Houston Chronicle published this piece, posted within hours of the segment, and today The New York Times did this one based on his Jan. 7 press conference. There […]
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According to an Associated Press report, Roger Clemens admits to receiving injections…of painkillers and vitamins. Clemens made the admission during his 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace. The segment will be aired Sunday, jan. 6. During the CBS interview, recorded last Friday at Clemens’ home in Katy, Texas, Clemens was asked whether McNamee had injected […]
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Hot on the release of the Mitchell Report, 60 Minutes aired a segment on Alex Rodriguez, the former and future highest paid player in the game. Among other revelations, the 2007 AL MVP says he has never taken performance enhancing drugs. Of course, everyone is pretty much skeptical of anything any athlete has to say […]
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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
