Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Because these could fit on a bookshelf if it was big enough. Reggie Jackson is auctioning off “the 10-foot-high letters that spelled “YANKEE STADIUM” near the edge of the roof for 32 years after the renovated stadium opened in 1976.” Jackson purchased the letters when the Stadium closed down after the 2008 season. Of course […]
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As part of her birthday celebration, I took my wife to the Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange, NJ. She’d been asking to go for a long time and I pretty much have no patience for museums unless there’s a baseball or pop culture connection. She wanted to buy a refrigerator magnet as a memento […]
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The Business Insider conducted this Q&A with Robert Weintraub, author of the 2011 release, The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923. Not surprisingly, the emphasis is on the business of baseball in the roaring 20s. You can read an excerpt from the book here. Don’t […]
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Memories & Memorabilia from the House that Ruth Built, by T.S. O’Connell (Krause Publications) Leave it to other books to dwell on records and anecdotes, Legendary Yankee Stadium is, in fact, a collectors, dream, assembling scores of collectibles depicting some of the most beloved players in the long, storied history of the franchise. O’Connell, the […]
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The Yankee game was on TV last night and I noticed from the centerfield shot that many of the seats behind the plate were vacant. At first I just chalked it up to the early hour; people probably hadn’ arrived yet. I subsequently switched to the Mets game and thought no more of it. Until […]
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I don’t usually buy the New York Daily News, so maybe I missed it. If not, will someone please reind the sports editors that there are two NY teams, each with a new ball park this year? The Sunday, March 29, issue included “Welcome Home,” a 48-page supplement all about the new Yankee Stadium. Very […]
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The April edition of Esquire celebrates opening day with three baseball-related items: A profile of Red Sox reliever John Papelbon, by Chris Jones “The Data,” a new column by Baseball Prospectus’ Nate Silver on “What Tim Geithner can learn from baseball.” Looks like you should have take your bar mitzva money and invested it in […]
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Speaking of NPR… Just happened to be flipping through the dial yesterday and came across The Brian Lehrer Show. Since it was a holiday, this was a highlights show, which included two segments on listeners’ memories of Shea and Yankee Stadiums, both of which closed with their team’s final home games in 2008.
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This review on Harvey Frommer’s paean to the House that Ruth Built comes via River Avenue Blues. Upshot: Frommer has crafted a great mix as he honors Yankee Stadium, and presenting a building that has stood the test of New York time for so many decades is no easy task.
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The New York Times ran these audios from various celebrities regarding their thoughts on Yankee Stadium, including Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own) Robert Creamer (Babe: The Legend Comes to Life) Author Jane Heller Ari Fleischer, former White House Press secretary
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American Thinker ran this review of Harvey Frommer’s latest book. Upshot: If you love the Yankees or simply have an abiding interest in baseball, this book will provide you with many pleasurable hours of recalling memories through its many pictures and loads of interesting tidbits and anecdotes about our most storied baseball team and its […]
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Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats, And toss my coffin in Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall Will bid the bleacher bums adieu And I will […]
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Recently, I was working on an article about Dave Kaplan, director of the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls, NJ. Kaplan and Berra have collaborated on four books, so I headlined the story “Berra’s Boswell.” Thought that was pretty clever, comparing Kaplan (no relation) to the biographer of Samuel Johnson. Then my copy-editor asked about […]
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To commemorate the final game at Yankee and Shea Stadiums, some of the NY papers put out supplements with their editions. Newsday ran a 20-page insert, “Thanks for the Memories,” which included: “One final night to look,” by Mark Herrmann 21 events in Herrman’s “Catching up on history” (21. because the last game was played […]
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How could they not?
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My feature on tribute books to the stadium is the lead story on the current on-line issue of Bookreporter.com. Titles include: MEMORIES OF YANKEE STADIUM by Scott Pitoniak A YANKEE STADIUM SCRAPBOOK: A Lifetime of Memories by David Fischer YANKEE STADIUM: A TRIBUTE: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008 by Les Krantz REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM: An […]
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from an unlikely source. Nils Lofgren, guitarist for Springsteen’s E Street band, and his wife, Amy, created this musical tribute. It’s available as a free download (along with The Star Spangled Banner), here. Some enterprising person should put this to a slide show.
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And another piece by Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man. This one was published by The Wall Street Journal.
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I wonder if, instead of the traditional rendition of “New York, New York” — the “sign off” at Yankee’s home games — we’ll be treated Ol’ Blue Eyes crooning “My Way.” “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain…” In addition to Tom Verducci’s “first stadium” account of the end […]
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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
Because you could put this on your bookshelf…if your name was Steinbrenner
September 23, 2010
They probably have humongous bookshelves in their palatial estates. Wouldn’t you know, the Steinbrenners can never do anything simple. The latest deal: is the monument honoring the late King George too big? Many fans have a problem with tributes to players like Mantle and DiMaggio This big while the new one saluting GS monument is […]
Tagged as: George Steinbrenner, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Monument Park, Yankee Stadium
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