Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Enjoyed many an interesting conversation at the recent SABR get-together in Washington, DC. Spent a lot of down time in the vendors room where publishers hosted some of their authors. The first interview is with Gary Mitchem, acquisitions editor for McFarland, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Mitchem discovered the processes he goes through […]
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Extra Innings: The Joy and the Pains of Over-30 Baseball by Patrick Smith McFarland, 2007 As an, ahem, over-30 athlete myself, I could emphasize with Smith’s funny and thoughtful memoir of those of us still in love with playing a kid’s game; knowing better, but afraid to give it up, afraid to capitulate to he […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
