Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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(Note: I published this piece on one of my other blogs, The Worried Journalist. Just call me Double-Duty Kaplan.) When I was a kid I once got in in trouble for spending twice my allowance because I bought the latest issues of Baseball Digest and The Sporting News on the way back from running errands. […]
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The long-time editor of Baseball Digest died April 2 at the age of 87. Kuenster is another of those veterans of the publishing world I waited too long to try to interview. Others included Mark Harris (The Southpaw Trilogy) and Eliot Asinof (Eight Men, Out, Man on Spikes). So I’ve learned my lesson. Of all […]
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I was at my local Barnes and Noble recently and noticed the new March/April edition of baseball Digest on the rack. Shows how long it’s been since I last picked up a copy. The design had changed from the standard “digest” size to a regular magazine. Boo! One of the nice, nostalgic things about the […]
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Every issue of the classic publication is available through Google books. The first issue: July 1945. Cover price: 15 cents. Tag line: “64 Pages — and Every Word Baseball!” Thanks to John Zajc and Rob Neyer for the item.
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From SABR’s Jim Charlton: Google Book Search has the full-text, searchable archive of New York Magazine, dating back to the 1960s; Jet Magazine, dating back to the 1950s; Ebony Magazine, dating back to the 1950s; Prevention Magazine, dating back to 2006; Popular Science Magazine, dating back to the 1870s; and Baseball Digest, dating back to […]
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This is the time of year when home gardeners (of which I am one) look forward to receiving their seed catalogs. I also enjoy getting the latest from the publishing world. Today I received the Ivan R. Dee catalog, which includes the following baseball titles: Catcher, by Peter Morris — The author of such neo-classics […]
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About 30 years ago or so, I really used to look forward to the March and April issues of Baseball Digest. The former was the annual issue devoted to the new crop of rookies, the later the yearly “data” issue, containing rosters, predictions, statistics, etc. Of course, “back in the day,” i.e., before the Internet, […]
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COVER STORY: Deep in talent, Red Sox will be an imposing force again in 2008 Baseball Digest‘s all-star rookie team, by George Vass 2007 Player of the year: Phillies Jimmy Rollins, by John McMurray 2007 Pitcher of the year: Red Sox Josh Beckett, by Gordon Edes Baseball Profile: Devil Rays outfielder Carl Crawford, by Rick […]
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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
