Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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As work on the new book about the Maccabiah Games becomes more urgent, I find I have less time to keep up with the latest baseball books news. Apologies. I guess the good part about the project is that it will be done before the time spring training — and the release of of new […]
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An emotional review of Clay Eal’s new biography of Steve Goodman, who composed “A Dying Cubs’ Fan’s Last Request.”
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The Hall of Fame outfielder for the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics, turns 75 today. Williams was part of the famous Cubs team — Santo, Banks, Hundley, Jenkins, Holztman, Hands, Kessinger, Beckert, etc. — that couldn’t stop the Mets juggernaut in 1969. he recently released his autobiography. The Amazon Report on Billy Williams: Billy Williams: […]
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With the dozens of new titles out each year, it’s interesting to see if there’s a consensus among the major media as to which titles to promote. I’ll be looking into that further a bit later, when more data comes in. For now, here’s the take from the Sun-Times: Change Up: An Oral History of […]
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The Chicago Daily Defender considers this one a “no-brainer.” Up-shot: …a low batting average of insight to arcana. But if, in spite of all this advice, you simply must have a copy of “Your Brain on Cubs,” be sure to put it in the bathroom book bin. It should match perfectly with your Cubs toilet […]
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From the Chicago Sun Times, this report of a local TV documentary on the WGN-Cubs 60-year relationship. An accompanying book, Cubs Forever, is due out from Triumph Books this spring. This leads to an observation on the recent trend towards “copy-cat” books that use the same format tailored to each team. For example, in addition […]
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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
