Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Voice of America, an organization “which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million […]
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From Bloomberg.com, this piece featuring Feinstein’s Living on the Black and Halberstam’s Everything They Had.
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Cubs fans sure hope so. It’s been 100 years since they last one the Series, and, in the words of the late Steve Goodman’s “A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request” “…the year the Cubs last won a national league pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan” So it’s with great anticipation that […]
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How many times has that phrase escaped from sports fans’ lips? This title, by Skyhorse Publishing, is an intersting look at circumstances around the world of sports and what may have happened if they would have had different outcomes.
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A thoughtful examination of Feinstein’s latest.
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MLB.com reports on the process by the reliever in completing the game with his Free Byrd The 37-year-old Byrd, who notched his 100th career win Friday against the Tigers, began compiling the journal entries that became the basis for his manuscript with the thought that they would be worth sharing with his sons. Eventually, a […]
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My review of Mike Lupica’s latest title for “young adult” readers (there’s something inaccurate about that designation; a young adult should probably be in his/her late teens or early twenties, depending on state laws, not the intended audience of 12-16 year-olds. I’m just sayin’.): Mike Lupica, the veteran sports columnist for the Daily News in […]
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The author of Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots,will be at the Kingston (NY) Barnes and Noble, 1177 Ulster Ave., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m. Leave the gloves at home.
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This duet of mini-reviews includes: Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots, by Spike Vrusho The Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love, by Jesse Lamovsky, Matthew Rosetti and Charlie Demarco Detect a theme here?
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from the very stats-oriented blog, Walk Like a Sabermetrician. It would seem that the reviewer did not like this one too much, resorting to key phrases such as “the downside is…”, “the problem is…”, etc. Sounds like heresy, coming from a blog named like this one. Now I’m not a hardcore stats guy, and maybe […]
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As reported on Missourinet.com, the biography — Harry Caray: Voice of the Fans — features a CD of some of the legendary broadcaster’s greatest calls.
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This blogger at Soxlinks does a better job than I at parsing the anti-Bradley review from the Boston Phoenix.
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As reviewed on Gaslamp.com, “San Diego Padres baseball in the form of a blog.”
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Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember, by John Feinstein (Little, Brown and Company) John Feinstein’s latest tome considers two veteran major leaguers plying their craft during the 2007 season search of major milestones in the magnifying glass of the media frenzy that is New York. Tom Glavine won his 300th game with the […]
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From a more diverse post on Chapelhillnews.com: ‘Living on the Black’ ‘Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember”, $26.99 (Little Brown, 526 pp.), by John Feinstein Pitching is one of the most difficult jobs on the planet. So, pitching well is reserved for only an elite few athletes. John Feinstein’s “Living on the Black” […]
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The National Sports Review gave this posthumous collection of Halberstam’s sports pieces top marks. Upshot: The book is littered with really interesting stories, including a neat section on Michael Jordan. I love reading about Michael Jordan so I was glad to see he was included. The story about his interview with Ted Williams was really […]
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City Pages, a Minneapolis/St. Paul based organization, ran this review of Peter Schilling Jr’s. new novel concerning the integration of baseball and Bill Veeck. Upshot: Skillfully drawn with all his flair (and all his faults), Schilling does a near-masterful job of constructing Veeck….And for what Schilling lacks at moments in his spare descriptions of zeitgeist […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
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
