Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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What kills me about this “Players Weekend” business is the fact that MLB probably paid beaucoup bucks to some enterprising lads or lasses to come up with these? And I’m not the only one who thinks so. Nope. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the fun part, generated mostly by the players being […]
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Make’s it official then. Abbot and Costello’s seminal “Who’s on First” routine was selected by Vulture as among the “The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy.” The jokes are listed in chronological order, not by funniest. In fact the title of the piece makes no promise along those lines. From the Vulture commentary: No single […]
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Slate’s Hang Up and Listen, is one of my “must-hear” podcasts. The chatter is almost always entertaining (except when they talk about soccer. ugh.). This week one of the topics was the classic Abbot and Costello routine. Coming on the heals of the Seinfeld-Costas deconstruction aired last week on the MLB Network, I have to […]
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With the All-Star break an extra day longer this year, the MLB Network had to find something to fill the time usually taken up with endless repeats of the same information. So they premiered Costas & Seinfeld: Who’s on First?, a deconstruction of the classic comedy routine. The Seinfeld fan will recall the two-part episode […]
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Born this date in 1906. Died too young at the age of 53. Some people find the antics of this man-child along with his bullying partner, Bud Abbot, too gauche. That may be, but there will always be thanks in the hearts of baseball fans and copycats for their signature sketch. From The Naughty Nineties:
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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
