Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Rough day to report on writers, although this one happened more than a month ago. Jim Caple, long-time ESPN baseball scribe, died October 1 at the age of 61 after battling ALS and dementia. Caple covered 20 World Series for ESPN, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I particularly enjoyed his work on […]
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ESPN’s Jim Caple posted this list of best baseball books in 2013. I keep hoping that 501 will make somebody‘s “best of” list, but so far it hasn’t happened. I’ve got no kick against any of Caple’s choices (well, perhaps One Summer: America, 1927, which, as he admits, is not a baseball book, although it […]
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Brian McNamee claims he injected Roger Clemens’ wife, Debbie, with HGH for the couple’s appearance in SI‘s 2003 swimsuit edition. Now McNamee has a new list of enemies. It’s one thing to besmirch the National Pastime, but when you start messin’ with that other great American institution, well them’s fighting words. ESPN’s Jim Caple makes […]
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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
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February 26, 2011
I don’t know, what name would you suggest for an award to honor the best baseball performances? At Oscar time, Jim Caple of ESPN’s Page 2 offers his take on “Academy Awards for Baseball Movies” (he dubbed his awards the “Oscar Madisons”). No real surprises here, although I would have selected Costner over Matthau, Davis […]
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