Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, located in Commack, NY, opened an exhibit in December in celebration of Sandy Koufax’s 75th birthday. The paintings, photographs, and other bric-a-brac have been assembled by Alan Freedman, director of the Hall into a beautiful paperback volume, Sandy Koufax: 32 at 75. Fans of baseball/sports art will immediately […]
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Someone does evidement, as per this review of Neil Leifer’s Ballet in the Dirt on this French photographic Web site.
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Roseboro, a catcher primarily with the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1960s, died this date in 2002. He published an autobiography, Glory Days with the Dodgers, and Other Days with Others, in 1978. Unfrtunately, the signature moment in Roseboro’s career might have come when pitcher Juan Marichal took a bat to his head during one […]
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When it was first published, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, a collection of Neil Leifer’s photographs which had a limited run of 1,000 copies, went for $400; towards the end, it was selling for $700. The 65-year-old Leifer, who has spent a good portion of his shooting for Sports Illustrate, is […]
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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
