Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Hold the beach. Those who have read this blog for any length of time know I’m not much for fiction. But this summer I’m taking a break from the norm and devoting the month of July to reading nothing but baseball novels. I’ve chosen two to begin with: The Resistors, by Gish Jen, and This […]
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The list is in for finalists for the 2013 CASEY Award for “Best Baseball Book of the Year,” as designated by Spitball magazine. Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere, by Lucas Mann Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line, by Tom Dunkel Going the Distance, by Michael Joyce Heart of […]
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From Rich Karlgaard’s “Digital Rules” column on Forbes.com, this brief recommendation for Frank Deford’s latest: You’re Entitled early each spring to read at least one good baseball book. Slide into Frank Deford’s novel, The Entitled, now out in paperback (Sourcebooks). This fine work ranks with Field of Dreams and The Natural. His praise, indeed, but […]
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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
