Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Conversations with 17 Former Jewish Major League Baseball players, by Dave Cohen. Havenhurst Books, 2010. Hot on the heels, but apparently unconnected with the new documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, we have this new oral history collection conducted by Cohen, described on the publisher’s website as “the familiar radio voice of Georgia [...]
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I was doing some research about Allan Roth, the Stephen Hawking of statisticians and came across this article (ostensibly) written by Branch Rickey for LIFE magazine back in the 1940s, courtesy of Baseballthinkfactory.com. Rickey, ever the innovator himself, credits Roth with a new set of numbers by which to judge the players, including on base [...]
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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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I was honored by the request to pen the foreword for Jews and Baseball, Vol. 2: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949-2008, by Burton and Benita Boxerman and published by McFarland. The first volume, subtitled Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948, was published by McFarland in 2007. Like its predecessor, this new “must-have” serves as a thorough resource [...]
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