Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The New York Times’ Janet Maslin published this review of Larry Tye’s new biography of the great Paige. Upshot: “All the African-American luminaries had climbed to the top of their fields, but none did it with Satchel’s over-the-top style and charm,” Mr. Tye claims. “And none of the others had been seen up close by […]
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye, due June 9. For more information, visit LarryTye.com.
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From Nonfiction Comics, this piece on the graphic novel, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow.
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SchooLibraryJournal.com published this article commenting on several Negro League titles, including: Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball James Sturm and Rich Tommaso’s Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow Robert Burleigh’s Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson Against the Odds
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Kevin Baker, author of Sometimes You See it Coming, did this review of two books about the Negro Leagues targeted for younger readers in the June 15 issue of the NY Times‘ Sunday book section. I never realized this was the same Baker that wrote the very entertaining historical fiction Paradise Alley, about the violent […]
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An enthusiastic critique of this graphic novel by Comicstory-arc.com. And another from Publisher’s Weekly. Here are some samples from the book.
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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
