Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The winner of the 2011 CASEY Award will be announced Monday, January 23. Finalists for the coveted literary prize include: The Art of Fielding: A Novel, by Chad Harbach Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs, [...]
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The editors of Spitball released their list of finalists for the 2011 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year: The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game by John Thorn The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball [...]
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Greg Spira passed along this link to an NJ.com review of five New York-centric books, including (with a “symbolic” thumbs up-thumbs down): 1961: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase, by Phil Pepe (-) Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly, by Mike Shalin (-) Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The [...]
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Congratulations to Nathan Cordery of Stoney Creek, Ontario, this month’s winner of the Bookshelf Facebook prize: John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. The next book prize will be Neil Lanctot’s Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella. In addition, as a special “season opener” bonus, another [...]
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NPR has had several baseball segments in recent days on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, The Leonard Lopate Show, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Only a Game. Leading off (this isn’t in chronological order) is comedian Jessi Klein who was featured in WWDTM‘s “Not My Job” portion of the program. SAGAL: Well, Jessi Klein, we’re [...]
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The topic on the March 28 Internet broadcast of What’s on Second included baseball anthologies, either by a single writer, or covering a specific topic, or just the game in general. The only qualification was they could not be coffee-table books; they had to be something small enough to bring to the ballpark so they [...]
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, March 18, at 4 p.m. Title Rank General Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn 1 The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, by Jonah Keri [...]
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How great must it be for John Thorn these days. Not only is his new book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, getting good reviews early on, but he was recently appointed Major League baseball’s official historian. Here are just a few of the items that have hit [...]
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It’s Monday and that means I’ll be making my weekly appearance on the What’s On Second Internet radio program on Blogtalkradio.com. The show begins at 9 p.m. EST, and I’m usually on about 9:40. Tonight’s guest will be John Thorn, the newly-appointed official historian of Major League Baseball. Thorn, a prolific writer, has just released [...]
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Congratulations to Mark Stratton of Columbia, MO, winner of the February Facebook fan drawing of Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. The March prize will be Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn, recently appointed as official baseball historian by Major League Baseball. Tell your friends!
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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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