Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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How about 2,063,333,890 of ’em? That’s the payroll for the New York Yankees at the beginning of the 2010 season, according to USA Today? Don’t know how I missed this one from The New York Times, especially since it has such a cool graphic: Putting a price tag on winning Fans are fairly inured to […]
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Interesting that about the same time as the story comes out reporting that baseball salaries are at an all-time high, we note the birthday of Curt Flood, who was responsible for the situation, for better or worse. For better obviously would have been for the players to make a decent wage and extricate themselves from […]
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Not for nothing, but I think we can eliminate the adjective “record” when describing how baseball salaries increase every year. Baseball’s average salary rose 4.6 percent last year to a record (emphasis added) $2.82 million, and the New York Yankees set a high for teams at $7.47 million. Like they’re ever going to go down? […]
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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
