Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The MLB Network has put together a bittersweet tribute to six Hall of Famers we lost this year. Highly recommended. (Phil Niekro’s passing must have been too recent to be included.) I know I should be surprised, but I was still shocked to see how much Tim McCarver has aged. Less so for Johnny Bench, […]
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Remember the other day when I asked when does this end? Obviously not any time soon. The latest casualty is Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford, who died last night (Oct. 8) at the age of 91. Nicknamed “The Chairman of the Board” and “Slick,” Ford spent his entire career with the New York Yankees, from 1950-1967 […]
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Actually several former Yankees — including Hall of Famers Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto — made a trip to Austria during the strike season of 1994. The story was capture on film and is in the process of being produced as A Baseball Story Never Told, a documentary by Randy Reynolds, who accompanied […]
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The other “Chairman of the Board” turns 82 today, a day after the birthday of his Yankee friend and teammate, Mickey Mantle. In his last two seasons with the Yankees, Ford — inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974 — had a record of 4-9. Subtract that from his career totals and he would […]
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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
