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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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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.
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball, by Saul Wisnia.
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout
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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
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My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers.
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Storyby Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
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, by Michael Bishop and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.: A Novel
by Robert Coover
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* New titles from Bloomsbury
December 2, 2009 · 0 comments
Their official spring-summer 2010 catalog isn’t online yet, but Bloomsbury is printing one new title and a 2009 title with a new afterword. The new title is Charlie Finley: The Life of Baseball’s Super Showman, a joint effort by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius, slated for a July release. From the catalog: Before [...]
Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bloomsbury, Charlie Finley, Zev Chafets
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