Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Award season continues! From the organization’s press release: SABR is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game’s great researchers — historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists — for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past. The 2019 recipients of […]
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Bill Conlin was just named recipient for the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, given by the Baseball Hall of Fame for “meritorious contributions to baseball writing.” The long-time beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News published Batting Cleanup Bill Conlin, a collection of his columns, in 1997 and edited The Rutledge Book of Baseball in 1981. […]
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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
My heroes have always been writers
September 24, 2013 · 1 comment
There’s a line in the film version of The Natural in which the following exchange occurs between Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) and the unctuous sportswriter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall): Hobbs: Did you ever play ball, Max? Mercy: No, never have. But I make it a little more fun to watch, you see. And after today, […]
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