Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Slate’s Hang Up and Listen, is one of my “must-hear” podcasts. The chatter is almost always entertaining (except when they talk about soccer. ugh.). This week one of the topics was the classic Abbot and Costello routine. Coming on the heals of the Seinfeld-Costas deconstruction aired last week on the MLB Network, I have to […]
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Hang Up and Listen, Slate’s sports podcast, with Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Mike Pesca, has had two excellent programs lately with lots of baseball relevence. The first — “The Can-Miss Prospect Edition,” aired Aug. 30 and considered Stephen Strasburg’s elbow injury and Albert Pujols’ and Tony La Russa’s appearance at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” […]
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Slate’s very excellent sports podcast featured mostly baseball this week, including: Who’s more hated: Brett Favre or Roger Clemens Payroll vs. Performance for MLB Vin Scully, who will be back in 2011, his 62nd year behind the mike. Enjoy: Hang Up and Listen
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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
