Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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George Will put in an appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show in April (how did I miss that), to discuss the re-release of Men at Work, first published 20 years ago. Say what you will about Will’s politics, he loves his baseball and can discuss it without engaging in overly vainglorious verbosity. You can hear [...]
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I wish George F. Will would publish another baseball book. In the meantime, here’s his quiz from the current issue of Newsweek. Read an excerpt from Bunts. Read an excerpt from Men at Work.
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In preparation for the April 21 PBS American Experience program on the late Latino superstar, here’s a New York Times’ review by George F. Will of David Maraniss’s 2006 biography. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvlDNCMZqg&hl=en] For a sample for the audio book, listen here: [audio http://audible.edgeboss.net/download/audible/content/bk/sans/000683/bk_sans_000683_sample.mp3]
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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
Tell your friends!
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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