Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
From an e-mail via SABR: Sock It to ‘Em Tigers: The Incredible Story of the 1968 Detroit Tigers, a joint effort of SABR and the Mayo Smith Society, is now available from Maple Street Press. Edited/project-managed by David Raglin and myself In the best tradition of Rounder Books’ tomes on the 1975 and 1967 Boston […]
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Duquesne University “promotes from within” as it issues this press release about the book, published by the University of Nebraska Press, co-authored by Robert V. Bellamy Jr., an associate journalism professor at DU. You can visit the book’s Web site here.
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From the interestingly-named blog about Baltimore sports, The Loss Column. Upshot: The end result is the kind of book I love to have around, one I can just pick up anytime, open to a random page, and enjoy for a few minutes.
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But the story on these books — Anatomy of Baseball, Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman, and Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game — did not appear in the Sunday Book Review section, but rather these Big Apple-centric titles appeared in “Reading New York” on May 11.
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From the Johnstown, Pa. Tribune Democrat, this review of the aforementioned book by Bernstein. Upshot: The problem is, Ross Bernstein’s [book] has more holes in it than Mario Mendoza’s swing. Ouch.
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From The Hardball Times Website, this evaluation. Upshot: In general, Rosengren does a good job telling these tales, and the book makes a nice, light read. If reading about the above sounds interesting to you, check it out.
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Another example of using your place of work to promote your extracurricular activities. Here Chris DeLuca, a Sun-Times’ writer, teams up with artist John Hanley in a collaboration, Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field. Upshot: The book celebrates the rich history and bittersweet moments created by the players, managers, […]
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The Conn. Post writer takes an awfully long time getting there, but this piece is ultimately about John Feinstein’s latest baseball book.
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I culled this entry from an article on Sportingnews.com about “The Biggest Liars in Sports History”: 9. JOE MORGAN Joe’s Truth: ESPN’s top baseball talking head gave us some baseball history when he beat Philadelphia with a RBI single in his 1964 Major League Baseball debut. His hit (he told us) extended the Colt 45’s […]
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The Columbus Dispatch ran this review of Everything They Had: Sportswriting from David Halberstam. The LA Times published one, too. Regardless of their politics, I’ve always had great admiration for authors like Halberstam, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and George F. Will, among others, who have the ability to write about “serious” issues and those of lesser […]
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This collection of mini-reviews includes: Anatomy of Baseball The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Pittsburgh Pirates Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies Ty Cobb: Safe at Home Keeping Score Change Up: An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball
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The Anatomy of Baseball anthology is getting a good deal of press these days. Here’s a critique from the National Sports Review. It’s also included in this Boston Globe roundup, which includes an interewsting and unusual collection of titles, such as Sort of Gone: Poems by Sarah Freligh ; The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally […]
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Time to play catch-up again. From Great Britain’s Guardian, this article about Billy Beane and the Moneyball phenomenon. Why on earth would it appear in a British paper? Because Beane is “Tottenham Hotspur fanatic, as well as a fan of the team’s coach, Sir Alex Ferguson. A list of recommended baseball novels from the Campaign […]
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The Truth, The Lies, and Everything Else, Fireside, 2008. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.527231&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] from youtube.com I have been meaning to review this one for awhile but a comment submitted by a Bookshelf reader about Fay Vincent’s We Would Have Played for Nothing prodded me to get the lead out. “BaseballinDC” wrote: Re the Vincent book. These are […]
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I have given major props to the L.A. Daily News‘ Tom Hoffarth for his thoughtful month-long series of baseball book reviews. Today’s the last day, so here’s his “whole freakin’ list” which lists and links all 30 titles. He was also gracious enough — self-promotion alert — to mention The Bookshelf in his wrap-up. Thanks […]
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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
