Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Peter Sagal, staunch Red Sox fan and host of NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, paid “tribute” to the late Yankee owner George Steinbrenner on his July 17 program. Herewith, a transcript of the segment from the “Who’s Carl this time” portion of the program: Sagal: Your last quote is from a man who was [...]
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Both the topics and the release dates of these books could be considered appropriate here. The first looks at Frank Deford’s The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball, while the second considers Mike Vacarro’s The First Fall Classic.
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but probably shouldn’t. From the Boston Herald.
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The Dighton Public Library is hosting “A History of Fenway” on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 1 p.m. at the lower level of Dighton Town Hall, 979 Somerset Ave. “Fenway Tours, the official guides of Fenway Park, will give an audiovisual presentation of the history of our beloved home of the Boston Red Sox. Trophies from [...]
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Several new titles consider World Series past. Two — by Joe Posnanski and Mark Frost — deal with the 1975 Red Sox-Reds contest, which was highlighted by Carlton Fisk’s game-winner in the sixth game, the closest to that point Boston had come to winning a title since 1918. The next most recent is Perfect, by [...]
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Headline from The Star-Ledger (Newark), Tuesday, Aug. 25 (from the New York Daily News syndicate): “Wagner unlikely to go to Red Sox” Headline from The Star-Ledger (Newark), Wednesday, Aug. 26 (from the New York Daily News syndicate): “Wagner relents, okays deadline deal to Boston”
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Wife and daughter are at the Sawx-Tigers game at the moment, so I thought it appropriate to haul these three reviews out of mothballs. All appeared in A Red Sox Journal, published by The Buffalo Head Society in the late 1990s. * * * Murder at Fenway Park, by Troy Soos. Kensington Publishing: NY. 1994 [...]
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The writer of this interesting piece by Clark Booth in the Dorchester Reporter brings up a good point: Why do we need so many books on the same subjects, such as the Boston Red Sox in 1978? It’s been said lately that the strings are being pulled tightly in the publishing industry. Several factors are [...]
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Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports published this item on the latest struggles by David “Big Papi” Ortiz. Good thing he’s not a horse, or it would be “off to the glue factory with him.” My first thought was that I was surprised to see he’s only 33; he’s one of these guys who seems like [...]
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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.
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
The Bookshelf was featured in in this column by Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News
An overview of several sports titles is one of the featured articles in the May/June issue of ForeWord Magazine.
What I'm reading now:
Banned in the Bronx: The Yankee Hater Memoirs 1953-2005
So far, so: refreshing, since I'm a Yankee hater, too.
Beyond Batting Average
So far, so: surprisingly comprehensive.
Chasing Baseball: Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People and Places
So far, so: early.
What I just read:
Born to Play: My Life in the Game
Grade: C. Average memoir, but Pedroia would be the first to admit he was an average student, so I don't think he'd be upset by the grade.
What's next:
L'Époque Glorieuse des Expos, by Alain Usereau (Still. Merde.)
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September 27, 2009 · View Comments
Jewish for “Happy Holiday,” As Jews around the world gather tonight to mark the holiest day on the calendar, George Vecsey offered this column in today’s Sunday Times. Instead of putting the game at 8 p.m. — prime time, as the networks call it — ESPN and Major League Baseball are accommodating thousands of fans [...]
Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, George Vecsey, New York Times, New York Yankees, Newspapers
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