Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer with Glen Waggoner (Harper, 2008) Sept. 8 marked Bobby Murcer’s big league debut. That, coupled with his recent passing, makes this an appropriate time to discuss his autobiography. Yankee For Life was a tough one to get through. Not because it was badly written — not at […]
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From the Bronx Banter column of the always entertaining Basbeall Toaster, this review of the late Bobby Murcer’s autobiography.
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is the theme of Richard Sandomir’s column in today’s New York Times. The sport media writer starts off with a curious line. “Bobby Murcer did not expect to write his autobiography so soon.” Now, Murcer, a long-time Yankees favorite, has been battling cancer for some time now and will turn 62 on May 20. With […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
