Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Kids, ask your parents/grandparents.) Our good friend Howard Megdal posted these suggestions on”How to survive without baseball.” Among them: Simulated baseball games, such as Baseball Mogul, Diamond Mind Baseball, Out of the Park Baseball, and, of course, Strat-O-Matic. I would add What-If Sports to this list. They allow you to construct a roster of any […]
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♦ The Huffington Post offers this piece on the best baseball (and non-baseball) DVDs. ♦ Net54baseball.com is a collectors site that has lots of baseball books for sale, trade, or just admiration. You have to register but it’s free. It’s worth it just for the pleasure of viewing book art like these. ♦ Redbirdsrants.com, a […]
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Defining the National Pastime, edited by Paul Dickson. Dover, 2011. In a word, Baseball is… great fun. Okay, so that’s two words, so sue me. The small, square paperback contains the wisdom of the ages when it comes to distilling the history of the game into a few sentences. There are plenty of larger books […]
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As in Tom Hoffarth’s one-a-day Book reviews: Day 7: The Baseball Hall of Fame Collection Day 8: Baseball — How to Play the Game Day 9: The Bill James Handbook 2011 Day 10: Baseball in the Garden of Eden Day 11: The Greatest Game Ever Pitched Day 12: Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles Day […]
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Came across this piece via Bleacher Report. I feel sorry for this gentleman for the pain he suffered, both physical and emotional, but why do people wait so long before they sue? Did anyone out there ever see The Fortune Cookie? There you go. Besides, isn’t there a disclaimer on the back of the tickets […]
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As I’ve stated in the past, I’m not a big fan of books that employ words like “best” and “greatest.” Add to that “Most,” as in Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History, by Mark Juddery, who adjudges baseball as “the most overrated sport.” Of course, he also considers Star Trek the most overrated […]
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Not Chief Bender or Wahoo, but Commander-in-Chief. President Obama is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at the Nationals home opener today. This year marks the 100th anniversary since Pres. William Howard Taft made his “delivery” at the Senators-Philadelphia Athletics inaugural on April 14, with Walter Johnson on the receiving end. The Associated Press […]
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Click here for a search of baseball-related items on Forbes. They don’t happen that often — and naturlaly, deal with the financial side of te game — but the writing is usually worth the wait. Recent articles include: Baseball’s Youth Wave: Smaller-market teams are increasingly locking up young talent in longer deals. That’s bad news […]
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One of the things you really notice at Yankees Fantasy Camp — and I’m sure it’s the same at all the others — is the omnipresence of photographers. Team pictures, action shots, posed “candid” shots, photos at the dinners, et al. People love having their pictures taken with celebrities. So why did it take so […]
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Last night marked my debut as a podcaster, sharing the stage with Daniel from C70 at Bat, a Cardinals-centric blog on BBA Baseball Talk, hosted on BlogTalkRadio. (FYI, the BBA — Baseball Bloggers Alliance — is a cooperative of folks who host blogs about the national pastime. Many are tram-centric; others, like mine, focus on […]
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Unless, of course, your toddler tosses it back. From Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog: Since being featured on the front page of Yahoo! on Wednesday afternoon, the Big League Stew post containing the highlight has been one of the most clicked in this blog’s history and I don’t think it’s hard to figure […]
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An interesting trio team up in this Times op-ed piece comparing the tools used to analyze baseball and the American health system. Oakland As GM Billy Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry — the new Tinkers to Evers to Chance? Or O’Brien to Ryan to Goldberg, perhaps? Interesting excerpt: “…a doctor today can get more […]
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Economics is one of those topics that is so important but that seemingly few people really understand. Box Score, a new blog, sounds interesting in that its purpose is to break the components down into understandble concepts using baseball. So what could be bad? In this entry, the bloggers refer to Moneyball and Strat-o-matic, two […]
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According to the Web site, MIStupid.com (“The online knowledge magazine”), the average life of a baseball is seven pitches.
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According to Long Beach’s own Grunion Gazette. The publisher, Arcadia, covers hundreds of topics in a photo album motif, heavy on the illustrations, light on text.
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From the Lost and Gone Forever blog: (Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode in question “Something Nice Back Home”, avert thine eyes). By virtue of the Yankees/Red Sox and Indians/Mariners scores in the newspaper article, only one date is viable for the publication of the paper: August 31, 2007. Article states Yankees finish […]
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In the previous entry on Jose Canseco, I included a story from the original Twilight Zone series. Since there are no new stories, the familiar theme of a man thrust back into an alternate universe was repeated for the umpteenth time. Here, in Extra Innings, from one of the program’s later incarnations, Marc Singer plays […]
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Recent baseball segments on NPR programs include: A Man and His Mitt: A love Story, All Things Considered, March 28. The page includes the essay, which appears in the new anthology Anatomy of Baseball Also on March 28, The Leonard Lopate Show asked the question “Are Baseball Players Worth Their Salaries?“ League Catches Fans Using […]
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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
The gauntlet, returned
July 8, 2010 · 1 comment
Earlier today I challenged Mark Juddery to back up the claim in his new book that baseball is the most overrated sport. Tonight, he offers his answer, via email, presented without editorial comment: Here are a few words written just for the Baseball Bookshelf site. (Well OK, it’s basically a reworked version of the book […]
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