Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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A propos to yesterday’s entry about the Hollander “Complete Guide to…,” I ventured into the attic to take these pictures last night. [SlideDeck id=’15980′ width=’100%’ height=’300px’] This “series” — mostly edited by Don Schiffer and, later, Jack Zanger — predates the Hollander books (by the way, the story appeared on the New York Times‘ website […]
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One of my favorite sections of the then-Street and Smith,/now-Sporting News annuals is the part devote to player milestone/targets. It remains great fun to see where the contemporary stars rank in relation to the legends of the game. I enjoy looking at a player and counting down, and guessing if he’ll make the goal during […]
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Wowio is actually an e-book website that recently started charging for its collection. But if you don’t mind staring at your computer screen, you can read the the 2008 edition of the excellent Hardball Times for free. IMHO, this publication is right on par with the Baseball Prospectus annuals. Registration may be required.
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You know the season is just around the corner when the baseball annuals hit the newsstands. When I first developed an interest for the game, back in the mid 1960s, Street and Smith‘s — Likes Topps baseball cards — was the only game in town. Since then — again like Topps — other publications have […]
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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
* An Overviews of Annuals
July 18, 2009
Been meaning to do this since the beginning of the season. The best laid plans, and all that. Anyway, the missus has been complaining that she keeps tripping over these (mostly) thick volumes, so here goes. The volumes share a theme: analyzing the previous year. For some, however, this is only done as a predictor […]
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