Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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As Opening Day approaches, the warm thoughts of afternoons in the sun will be obliterated by the cloud that is the steroids scandal. Jose Canseco, our guest “meteorologist,” is back with his sequel. The March 17 Publisher’s Weekly offers this feature on how the buzz about Canesco’s latest literary contribution is is stealing the thunder […]
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From libraryjournal.com, two brief reviews of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark and Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans. Interesting to note that these are two of the most historically snake-bitten teams when it comes to the post-season. (Thanks to reader Greg Spira.)
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The following is based on an article by Bob Cottrell, Margaret Heilbrun, Paul Kaplan (no relation), and Gilles Renaud from the Feb. 1 issue of Library Journal My comments appear in parenthesis; the writers’ in the indented paragraphs. The Code: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your- Own-Risk Code of Conflict, by Ross Bernstein. Triumph. March […]
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My favorite pieces of mail, aside from the books I receive, are the catalogs announcing the books I will shortly receive. Like gardeners, I look forward to these colorful brochures that hold the promise of hours of enjoyment during the months to come. The University of Nebraska Press and its imprint, Bison Books, publish some […]
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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
