Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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And maybe it should have stayed buried. In looking up For Love of the Game on IMDB, I found yet another baseball film in which Kevin Costner appeared of which I was totally unaware: Chasing Dreams, a 1989 release that garnered just a 3.2 rating on that site. After viewing the trailer, I understood why […]
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There’s a link in Graham Womack’s piece on The Sporting News site that will take you to a similar ranking of “the best baseball movies of all time.” I wouldn’t have raised a peep if they substituted “favorite” for “best,” but you know how I feel about superlatives; I’m not going to let this go […]
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Next to baseball and books (and, of course, baseball books), I enjoy learning about what goes on behind the scenes in movies. That’s why I enjoy the I Was There Too podcast hosted by Matt Gourley, which features interviews with actors who may not have been the stars of the films in which they appeared, […]
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Note: There’s a hidden message here marking a fairly important anniversary. See if you can figure it out. I had to take a few liberties, but I hope I’ll be forgiven in the form of an autographed copy of 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die plus the bonus checklist to the first […]
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One of the things I missed most about not blogging here regularly was the opportunity to conduct these podcast interviews. There’s always someone interesting to talk with a bout their new project, be it a book, a move, a musical album, etc. I spoke with Joe Siegman as a major player in the U.S. Maccabi […]
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Guess he missed making baseball movies so much, he had to do something to keep involved. And wouldn’t it be so cool if this earns Brian Wilson gets a new nickname: Santa.
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An amazing piece of cinematic coincidence. Now compare that scene with the one in Costner’s Academy Award-winning Dances With Wolves in which his character, John Dunbar, and his drover, Timmons (the late Robert Pastorelli), argue abut the sagicity of remaining at Fort Sedgewick. The dialog is provided by script-o-rama.com: Timmons: There ain’t nothing here, Lieutenant. […]
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In this corner, Kevin Costner. And in this corner, Kevin Costner. And the winnah, according to the Angels blog on the OC Register Web site, is ___.
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NPR’s Fresh Air replayed this May 2007 interview with Costner to mark the release of his latest movie, Mr. Brooks, on DVD. The interviewer is with Dave Davies. Costner discusses his love for the game (not coincidentally the title of his trilogy of baseball films; and no, The Upside of Anger, in which he plays […]
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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
