Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Can it really be 25 years ago since Al Campanis appeared on what might just be the most (in)famous episode of Nightline (when it was a real news program)? Campanis, then the general manager of the LA Dodgers, was on to discuss the lefacy of Jackie Robinson and ended up losing his job for his […]
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Johnny Vander Meer, owner of one record that is unlikely to be broken, was born this date in 1914. The Dutch Master, The Life And Times Of Johnny Vander Meer, by Paul Lichtman Also born on Nov. 2, Al Campanis, the Dodgers’ baseball lifer who made an infamous name for himself with his remarks about […]
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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
* Recalling a Nightline nightmare
July 29, 2008
The LA Times’ columnist Bill Dwyre dredges up a waterhsed moment in baseball: the undoing of Al Campanis before a national audience. Campanis, Dodgers’ vice president and director of player personnel at the time, was a guest on the program along with Roger Kahn, author of the Classic The Boys of Summer. to mark the […]
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