Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Two years ago it was Derek Jeter, who won an Academy Award for best fake hit by pitch. Now it’s Dewayne Wise, who got way too much benefit of the doubt when the umpire credited him with catching a ball in foul territory that the Yankees outfielder did not catch. Pardon the Interruption featured the […]
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The first two nights of the trip we spent in Newton with a vet-school friend of Faith’s. (By the way of you want a good veggie restaurant in the area, try the Red Lentil in Watertown.) We moved into our hotel on Saturday and just lazed. Sunday we were supposed visit the Museum of Fine […]
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“Olney make believe…” Sorry, I can never keep that name straight. The natural tendency is to dyslex it into “only.” ESPN baseball writer/broadcaster Buster Olney was the guest on the latest Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me‘s “Not My Job” segment. I felt kind of badly for him. There was zero response to Peter Sagal’s introduction. […]
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The main baseball article is John Heyman’s look at the recent late-inning heroics by the Yankees. Other items include a sidebar on the Tigers’ resurgence and Albert Chen’s recounting of Harvey Haddix’s non-perfect game just 50 years ago.
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Charles McGrath penned this interesting comparison of good v. evil, aka Yankees v. Red Sox in today’s Week in Review section in the Sunday Times. Specifically, he talks about the differences in the ballparks. The New Yankees home, “with its vast, mall-like spaces, its temples of conspicuous consumption, feels like something the ancient Romans might […]
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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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Now begins the backpedaling. Torre and Cashman are still pals, says this article by Jack Curry in today’s NY Times. And Richard Sandomir contributes this thoughtful column on the style the author’s used (third person): “a hybrid in the sphere of celebrity autobiographies, in which a star hires a writer to render his or her […]
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From the Sports Locker blog.
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Seems the Yankees and their fans are somewhat upset about MLB’s “Call Your Shot” promotion, in which a fan winning an online contest will choose a spot here he believes Red Sox slugger David Ortiz can park one. “Sacrilege,” they cry, to befoul the final season at the hallowed Yankee Stadium with such heresy. The […]
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From the Lost and Gone Forever blog: (Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode in question “Something Nice Back Home”, avert thine eyes). By virtue of the Yankees/Red Sox and Indians/Mariners scores in the newspaper article, only one date is viable for the publication of the paper: August 31, 2007. Article states Yankees finish […]
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In 1913, in a game which features President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, Washington’s Walter Johnson gives up an unearned run in the first inning of the home opener but will not yield another for 56 innings. The Senators beat the Yankees, 2-1. (Thanks to NationalPastime.com.)
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The current issue of Men’s Fitness features a cover story on Red Sox’ pitcher Josh Beckett. Meanwhile the current issue of Men’s Health features Derek Jeter as it’s cover boy. (They also have a brief piece featuring Jacob Ellerbsy of the Sox). I’m not just saying this because I’m from the NY area, but Jeter […]
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Here’s a sneak preview of the latest edition of Play, The New York Times‘ sports supplement, which features an article by Jonathan Mahler (Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning) on the change in Yankees stewardship. Hal and Hank Steinbrenner have only been in charge a short while, but they’ve already alienating people with their […]
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This will be the last season for the homes of both New York teams. Losing Shea Stadium is no big deal; it was a cold, cavernous ugly concrete structure from day 1. Good riddance to bad rubbish. But Yankee Stadium is a cathedral and the though of it being demolished is truly a sad one.
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Mark Feinsand’s “Blogging the Bombers” column notes two books with ties to the Yankees. As the team heads into its final year at Yankee Stadium, look for more books like Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, which capture the rich history of the ballpark. The other book is noteworthy for a more ironic reason. Jonathan Mayo […]
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“Old Reliable” turned 95 on Feb. 20. The Amazon Report: Five O’Clock Lightning: Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio, Mantle and the Glory Years of the Ny Yankees
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Edited by John Thorn, Collins, 2007. Don’t let the slim size of this elegant book fool you. Inspired by an exhibit sponsored by the Museum of the City of New York, with essays from some heavy hitters, The Glory Days recaptures a simpler time for baseball and the country. Ballplayers who lived in our neighborhoods, […]
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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
* New York, New York: A "Freaky" assessment
June 29, 2009
From Stephen J. Dubner on The New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog (It’s okay; the original Freakonomics still sits on my bookshelf), this assessment of the decline of Western civilization, as evidenced by the boorish behavior of fans at last night’s interleague game between the Mets and Yankees.
Tagged as: Freakonomics, Mets, Yankees
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