Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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I picked up a couple of books at the library recently and, lo and behold, found some baseball in ’em. 100 of the Worst Ideas in History, by Michael Smith and Eric Kasum, includes three items on the national pastime in the chapter “Stupidity at a Major League Level.” Each contains the following: “The genius […]
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♦ One of my neo-favorites books have been the Freaknomics series. Their blog included this item about the eternal question (well, eternal since 1903, with the occasional break), “Does the best team win the World Series?” By teh way, Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner contributed an essay about everybody’s favorite comeback kid, Adam Greenberg, in […]
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One of my favorite blogs is Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt on The New York Times‘ Web site. So imagine my glee when I found several baseball-related items, treated with the hosts’ usual thought-provoking and humorous style: Since the beginning of 2008, the columns include: Baseball Writers Are A Rare Breed: […]
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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
* New York, New York: A "Freaky" assessment
June 29, 2009
From Stephen J. Dubner on The New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog (It’s okay; the original Freakonomics still sits on my bookshelf), this assessment of the decline of Western civilization, as evidenced by the boorish behavior of fans at last night’s interleague game between the Mets and Yankees.
Tagged as: Freakonomics, Mets, Yankees
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