Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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First entry of the new decade. Hubba-hubba. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over […]
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Because you can keep the souvenir cups on your bookshelf. And at some of these prices, you better. Today’s Wall Street Journal ran this little item about the cost of beer at the ballpark as a factor of the team’s success. I see that several of the venues mention sell 20-21 oz. cups, which is […]
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In today’s New York Times — and with the closing of both new York stadiums after the 2008 season — Nick Bunkley writes about the demolition of Tiger Stadium in his “Detroit Journal.” As the last game in the old Michigan ballpark drew near, Tom Stanton wrote about growing up an intergenerational Tigers fan in […]
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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
* Don't look for Nationals Park to be featured in Architectural Digest anytime soon
April 1, 2008
I heard about this Washington Post item via one of my favorite podcasts, The Tony Kornheiser Show. The raging redhead rails against this analysis of the new edifice by WaPo architecture columnist Philip Kennicott, calling him a variety of colorful names and attacking his skills as a writer. The opening paragraph is apparently what set […]
Tagged as: architecture, stadiums, Tony Kornheiser, Washington Nationals
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