Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Not the Ken Berry of F Troop fame, but Ken Berry the outfielder for the White Sox, Angels, Brewers, and Indians, who turns 70 today. The defensive standout (two Gold Gloves) served as a technical adviser for the movie version of Eight Men Out and even had a speaking part. He’s the loudmouth in the [...]
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For me, as a freelance writer, anyway. My first major published piece was a review of Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, by Harvey Frommer for Elysian Fields Quarterly in 1993, which you’ll find after the break. I wax nostalgic because I learned at the recent SABR Convention that EFQ might be forced to ceases publication [...]
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from the Columbia (SC) State. I’ve often thought what I should do with my baseball library. Maybe this is an idea: The museum is a collection of Jackson memorabilia and personal items. The library contains books donated by baseball aficionados across nation.
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Richard Sandomir, the sports media columnist for The New York Times, wrote this piece about the new Joe Jackson museum opening in Greenville, SC. “Admission is free but donations will be appreciated to augment the meager, privately financed budget. Marcley says there are enough Jackson fans to make this personal and passionate campaign succeed.”
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Congratulations to Bonnie Bernstein, winner of the October book, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball
The November book will be Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
Tell your friends!
My article on Yankees Fantasy Camp appears in the current issue of Broadside Bombers.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times
Grade: C-. Too many errors and too much overwrought writing.
Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story
Grade: A. Still a bit "innocent," but amazingly ahead of its time in deal with its subject matter of mental illness.
What's next:
With a lull in the release of new baseball titles, a re-read of Brittle Innings
Recently acquired:
Nothing lately
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