Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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I’m reading The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams for an upcoming review on Bookreporter.com. When I received the galleys, my first thought was similar to Rob Neyer’s, who noted in this post, “Hey, there’s another book about Ted Williams.” (Excerpt here. By the way, although I understand the title, it’s too similar to […]
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Found this a few weeks ago, but had forgotten about it. A great new book — Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera — tells the backstories about many of his famous paintings, including his 1948 work, “The Dugout,” which depicts a desolate Cubs team languishing in poor times. NPR picks up the story here, with the […]
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Some kids get their love of baseball from their father. Mine was from the old country, born in Russian, coming to the U.S. when he was 16. He never took to sports like some new arrivals do to become “more” American. My father’s main form of relaxation was drawing and he was quite good at […]
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Execrpted from an entry on darkmattermag.com: “When I was young, I collected autographs of active and retired baseball players using a book that actually listed their home addresses. This book even had addresses for old umpires, including the umpire depicted in the center of Rockwell’s painting, “Beans” Reardon. So, I have a small reproduction 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
