Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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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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From TheHardBallTimes, this review of Bill Reynolds’’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City. Upshot: Despite many faults, HBT reviewer Chris Jaffe concludes, “I enjoyed this book far more than I expected to because of its considerable strengths. Though it couldn’t quite fuse its elements, Reynolds didn’t try to force fusion [...]
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I never had a brother, so I don’t know what it’s like to be in someone’s shadow. Imagine Dom DiMaggio. He had a wonderful 11-year career with the Boston Red Sox, finishing with a .298 career batting average and a seven-time all-star. But there was Joe, always in the spotlight. Dom passed away yesterday at [...]
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From today’s Boston Globe: “Sox: Henry is not in talks to buy The Globe”
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After all Patriot’s Day is coming up (April 19)… This month’s issue of Boston magazine features 2008 Rookie of the Year Dustin Pedroia as the cover boy. “The Obsessive’s Guide to the Sox,” proclaims the banner. Among the articles: “67 Things You didn’t Know About the Local Nine.” Why 67? Something to do with the [...]
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This time in the form of a new documentary about Luis Tiant. The Boston Globe published this piece today about The Lost Son of Havana. Upshot: The movie, scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 23 and to open in New England at the Boston Independent Film Festival April 25, [...]
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From Mark Armour of SABR: I would like to announce the publication of the new book “Lefty, Double-X, and The Kid: The 1939 Red Sox, a Team in Transition,” edited by Bill Nowlin and published recently by Rounder Books. (Anticipating the usual question, “Gee Mark, why did you decide to do a book about a [...]
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According to an item in Publishers Weekly daily email, there will be a new sports-heavy imprint launching this spring. MVP Books, an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, will specialize in “distinctive, high-quality books for the sports enthusiast,” with both illustrated coffeetable books and narrative nonfiction in a hardcover format. The MVP titles to hit the [...]
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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.
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
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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
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story
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
Recently acquired:
Nothing lately
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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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