Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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That Don Larsen threw his World Series perfect game. Holy cow, as Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto — who did not appear in that game — might say, they haven’t even finished the Division Series yet. Books about this singular event include: The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History, by […]
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The Seattle Mariners pulled off a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Starting pitcher Kevin Millwood came out with an injury after six innings of not allowing a safety; a parade of five relievers finished the job and the mariners came away with a 1-0 win. This comes a week after Johan […]
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J.C. Bradbury, author of The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed and the upcoming Hot Stove Economics: Understanding Baseball’s Second Season — to be published in October by Springer — wrote about Edwin Jackson’s 149-pitch no-hitter. I had a little to say about that too on my other blog, in context with the anniversary of […]
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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
