Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Sung to the tune of “We didn’t Start the Fire,” by Bill Joel: New York Mets are shutting down, their old ballpark; won’t be found. What’s a proper way to say, “thanks for all that?” Why not host a concert, eh?, Get a mega-star to play. Google You-Tube videos: “Mets-Cubs” and “black cat.” Looking for a […]
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Ron Darling, former Mets star and author of The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, was on The Daily Show last night. The more I watch the interview segments of the program, the less I like the job Jon Stewart does as host. he’s fine for the “news” items, but […]
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Because you can put the smaller pieces of debris on a bookshelf: There have been a lot of derogatory remarks about Shea Stadium over the years — too old, too boring, too much walking, too few concessionaires, too smelly rest rooms, etc. But it was the ballpark of my youth, and as with any family, […]
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Speaking of NPR… Just happened to be flipping through the dial yesterday and came across The Brian Lehrer Show. Since it was a holiday, this was a highlights show, which included two segments on listeners’ memories of Shea and Yankee Stadiums, both of which closed with their team’s final home games in 2008.
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Five Decades of Stadium Memories (Triumph Books, 2008) Compared with some of the wonderful books that have been published about Yankee Stadium’s last season, this slim paperback comes across like a poor stepchild, an afterthought in the world of recorded memory. I know the Mets’ home since 1964 doesn’t have the same cachet of the […]
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From Triumph books, again: The New York Mets may have lost out on reaching the playoffs for the second time in as many seasons, but the team is still important enough to have two upcoming books published revolving around the 2008 historic season: and So Long, Shea and Shea Good-Bye. So Long, Shea: Five Decades […]
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The Mets are hosting an on-line auction. The cheapest item as of this writing is a $50 stadium brick; the most expensive, is the letter “S” off the Shea Stadium sign (the “Stadium” S, not the “Shea” S) for $2,500. The auction ends October 31.
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The main baseball story profiles Joe Maddon, manager of the Eastern Division Champion Tampa Bay Rays (how many ever thought they’d hear those words strung together?). There’s a sidebar on Angels skipper Mike Scioscia as well. Other items include: A poll on who’s the best base-runner in the game. A “farewell” to Shea
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To paraphrase chopper pilot Frank Lapidus on Lost. A front-page story in today’s New York Times reports how airplanes pilots use Shea Stadium as a landmark. Hope they’ll still be able to find their way.
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To commemorate the final game at Yankee and Shea Stadiums, some of the NY papers put out supplements with their editions. Newsday ran a 20-page insert, “Thanks for the Memories,” which included: “One final night to look,” by Mark Herrmann 21 events in Herrman’s “Catching up on history” (21. because the last game was played […]
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It may not have the same resonance as Yankee Stadium. It may even be a pit. But people seem to forget that Shea Stadium is closing, too. And the Yankees would do well to remember that they were guests there while their own “House” was being put back in order. Shea Stadium (NY) (Images of […]
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While not strictly a baseball item, Soundcheck‘s John Schaefer discussed Shea Stadium as a concert venue in this podcast, so it’s good enough for me. http://audio.wnyc.org/soundcheck/soundcheck071608apod.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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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
New stadiums for old
February 25, 2008
This will be the last season for the homes of both New York teams. Losing Shea Stadium is no big deal; it was a cold, cavernous ugly concrete structure from day 1. Good riddance to bad rubbish. But Yankee Stadium is a cathedral and the though of it being demolished is truly a sad one.
Tagged as: Mets, old ballparks, Shea Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Yankees
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