Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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So this is the way it’s going to be, I guess. The stars and favorites from my youth are of an age where their passing is not uncommon and therefore should not be shocking. But it is shocking and serves as an unwelcome reminder that my contemporaries are getting older, too. Rusty Staub is the […]
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To the Perth Heat, for winning their second straight Australian Baseball League title. Good show, mates. Nicholas Henning has written a couple of novels about baseball down under in Boomerang Baseball and The American Dream: From Perth to Sacramento. Congrats also goes to Rusty Staub for his election — along with Doug Melvin and Rheal […]
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Daniel “Rusty” Staub turns 67 today. Rusty Staub of the Expos, by Robertson, 1971. Hello, Mr. Met!, by Staub, 2006 (juvenile). Few and Chosen: Defining Mets Greatness Across the Eras, by Staub with Pepe, 2009. Also born this date, Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who turns 72. Knuckle Balls, by Niekro with Bird, 1986. The […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
