Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Because you can frame the ticket stubs and put them on the bookshelf…Or simply the book, The Year the Yankees Lost First The Pennant, by Douglas Wallop, on which the musical was based. So, a remake of Damn Yankees, starring Jim Carrey as the Devil and Jake Gyllenhaal as “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo?” Seems [...]
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Another top ten list of baseball flicks, this one from the folks who bring you the VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever: Bull Durham Field of Dreams The Natural Pride of the Yankees Major Leagues The Bad News Bears (1979) The Stratton Story A League of Their Own Eight Men Out The Rookie
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From the Hall of Fame: Three Movies Win Awards at Baseball Film Festival –Dreaming in Blue Takes Home Best Film– (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The third annual Baseball Film Festival at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum concluded with the presentation of three awards determined by a panel of four judges on Sunday afternoon [...]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when it hosts a the third annual Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Sept. 19-21. The event kicks off with a salute to the 20th anniversary of the release of Bull Durham, featuring appearances at the Museum by the [...]
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I was stunned when I read the news that the comedian/actor — he was the star of Mr. 3000 — had died at the age of 50. At the risk of sounding maudlin, the older I get, the more aware I am of those dying around me, especially when they’re younger than I. There are [...]
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Fans of Monty Python will recognize John Cleese’s signature tagline. It applies here because an unlikely source from Great Britain offers a podcast review of Field of Dreams. One of my favorite (or favourite, in this case) podcasts is “Movies You Should See,” a weekly offering by a group of 30-something Brits who obviously enjoy [...]
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Baseball Films in the Capra Tradition by Wes D. Gehring, McFarland, 2004 Gehring, a professor of film at Ball State University and associate media editor for USA Today magazine, combines th best of both worlds as he examines several baseball features, comparing them with the works of Frank Capra. For example, these baseball films mirror [...]
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An article from the New England-based Seacoastonline.com reports that a film about Ari Alexenberg, a 45-year-old Boston man who played in the first (and perhaps only) season of the Israel Baseball League last year, is in the works. When Steve Sanger, of Portsmouth-based Sanger Communications, heard of Alexenberg’s story, he knew he had to meet [...]
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In this corner, Kevin Costner. And in this corner, Kevin Costner. And the winnah, according to the Angels blog on the OC Register Web site, is ___.
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Remember The Bad News Bears (the original one, not the disaster with Billy Bob Thornton)? Of course you do, it was a “revolutionary” film in that it presented kids as kids, not some Disneyworld animatronic beings. Now how about, Hardball, starring Keanu Reeves as a gambling addict sentenced to coach an inner city little league [...]
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MLB.com’s Doug Miller contributed this list of independent films that have baseball somewhere within its theme, if not the actual subject. Some are documentaries, others are features, several premiered at film festivals. Diminished Capacity (2008): Directed by Terry Kinney, the veteran actor and performer who garnered acclaim in his role as Tim McManus in the [...]
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Has it really been 20 years? ESPNthemag.com has a five-part retrospective, featuring interviews with director Ron Shelton and actors Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POmOZXfihs&hl=en] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lptsSTTWLVQ&hl=en] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMl0CLIDLg&hl=en]
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Yes, Robin, there was hardball in the Holy Land last year, with the inaugural season of the Israel Baseball League. Six teams played during the summer of ’07; three of which were led by former Major Leaguers Art Shamsky, Ken Holztman, and Ron Blomger, who led his team to the championship. Unfortunately, and for a [...]
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The American Film Institute released its list of the top ten films in ten categories. Pride of the Yankees and Bull Durham came in third and fifth respectively in the Sports genre. The list includes: Raging Bull Rocky Pride of the Yankees Hoosiers Bull Durham The Hustler Caddyshack National Velvet Breaking away Jerry Maguire Talk [...]
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
Tell your friends!
My article on Yankees Fantasy Camp appears in the current issue of Broadside Bombers.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story
Grade: A. Still a bit "innocent," but amazingly ahead of its time in deal with its subject matter of mental illness.
What's next:
With a lull in the release of new baseball titles, a re-read of Brittle Innings
Recently acquired:
Nothing lately
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That's Bull
November 14, 2008 · 0 comments
With rumors of a sequel to Bull Durham running around, I thought I’d take this opportunity to vent about something that’s been bugging me for awhile. I recently watched the movie for the umpteenth time and one scene in particular always makes me scratch my head. It takes place in the night game in which [...]
Tagged as: Baseball Movies, Bull Durham
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