Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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A couple of recent titles serve as a reminder that no matter where you go, there you are. Chris Jensen’s contribution to the national pastime and Americana is Baseball State by State: Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites, published by McFarland. He travels the highways and byways from coast to coast, […]
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by David B. Stinson (Huntington Park Publications, 2011). They did build it, and they did come. The “build” part are dozens of old baseball parks and stadiums, now long gone. The “they” are the hundreds of athletes who played for various teams in the late 19th and early 20th century. Such is the focus of […]
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The book is slated for a March 2010 release. From the catalog: Silver Seasons and a New Frontier: The Story of the Rochester Red Wings, Second Edition, by Jim Mandelaro and Scott Pitoniak. Taking us back to the early nineteenth century, when baseball was played in the meadows and streets of Rochester, New York, Silver […]
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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
