Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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(Because you can put sheet music on your bookshelf.) So first they said that Jose Reyes had sustained a hamstring injury in Saturday’s game and we held our collective breath. Then they said it was a Grade One, the “best” kind of that injury you can have. He’d miss the Sunday game and, given the […]
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The product in question is the collectible bobblehead doll that serves as an occasional giveaway at games. At least that’s the sense you get when you see this piece by Ken Belson in today’s Times. The Mets plan to offer an Ike Davis model for the July 19 game. He’s already on the disabled list. […]
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Since there haven’t been any books written about him. Yet. The NY Mets’ likable Ike Davis turns 24 today. I received a shipment of cards yesterday including this one. This wasn’t Davis’ first card. Nowadays they have prospect cards, minor league star cards, etc., in multiple incarnations from multiple manufacturers. When I was a kid […]
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The Brooklyn Cyclones evidently still like Ike Davis, who played for the Mets’ Single-A affiliate in 2008, hitting .256 with 15 doubles, 17 RBIs and 17 runs scored in 58 games. So what higher tribute than to honor him with his own bobble head? Oh, but not just any bobble head: The game will be […]
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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
