Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From ESPN.com: WASHINGTON — The Washington Nationals’ director of player development has clarified remarks in which he compared No. 1 draft pick Bryce Harper to Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson. “My sole intent was to speak to the scrutiny that Harper faces on a daily basis,” Doug Harris said in a statement Tuesday. “The hardships [...]
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First that, now this? (You have to look at the ad closely.) Good to see the person who sewed the letters on the uniform was able to find employment again.
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A little off-topic, but what is it with the folks in D.C? First they misspell the baseball team (multiple times), and now it’s the NBA Wizards?
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and put it on your bookshelf. Owen Wilson plays Matty, a pitcher on the Washington Nationals, and Reese Witherspoon a former Olympic softball player in How Do You Know?, which opens in theaters today. I have no intention of seeing this one, but the trailer does include a scene (about the 1:24 mark) with Wilson [...]
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Great. Something else for Mets and Yankees fans to argue about. Now you can sing along. And I couldn’t help but add this one. A song about the Washington Nationals? How retro.
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The MLB Network isn’t the only entity examining “30 teams in 30 days.” I participated in a couple of “round table” discussions with the good folks at Inside Pulse Sports recently about what the 2010 season might hold for the Mets and Nationals, my two favorite teams. You can read the Mets piece here and [...]
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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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* Don't look for Nationals Park to be featured in Architectural Digest anytime soon
April 1, 2008 · 0 comments
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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