Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Found of a couple of interesting items at the local B&N. The first was USA Today‘s annual sports yearbook (sorry, couldn’t find a picture of the cover on-line). It has all the usual info: lots of stats and standings, capsule news roundups, photos, etc. It carries a cover price of $7.99. My main bugaboo was […]
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In a sense — and as much as I have loved them since childhood — I don’t know why they bother with these print editions anymore. You know a good portion of the information will change by the end of spring training, if not sooner, rendering some of the speculation and predictions useless. For example, […]
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Speaking of USA Today and disregarding what I just said about lessening the load… This is a nice little recap of the 2010 season. I especially enjoyed Nicole Auerbach’s month-by-month review, featuring dates to remember, special events, and sundry topics. Of major note are the team pages which analyze 2011 and beyond. However, I question […]
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The April 3 edition of USA TODAY included a baseball preview supplement. A story about baseball team payrolls — represented by a HUGE picture of C.C. Sabathia — was plastered on page one. There’s also a colorful comparison of the two new New York stadiums. I see that the seats are expanding in both ballparks, […]
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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
Major recycling: Baseball Weekly
November 23, 2010 · 3 comments
::Heavy sigh:: Still hacking from spending several hours a couple of weeks ago in my attic trying to weed out some baseball material. As you can imagine, it’s very difficult. Part of it must be psychological: As long as you have “stuff,” you’ll never die. To put it another away, “I can’t die; look at […]
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