Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
In his new autobiography, Call Me Ted, Ted Turner includes one chapter devoted to his ownership of the Atlanta Braves. Using the lessons learned through the Rob Neyer School of Detection, it seems that Turner has some lapses of memory, at best, or is fabricating, at worst. He writes about taking over the team in […]
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Spitball Magazine has announced that We Are the Ship is the 2008 winner of its Casey Award as best baseball book of the year. Nelson will receive the award the 26th annual CASEY Awards Banquet on March 8, at Sawyer Point in downtown Cincinnati. In an email to the Bookshelf, Nelson wrote: I’m quite honored […]
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Rick Cleveland’s biography (published by Lemuria Press) of Boo Ferriss, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox from 1945-50, as glowingly reviewed in the Clarksdale (MS) Press Register. Ferriss, a Mississippi product, won 21 and 25 games in his first two major league seasons, 12 the next year and never in double figures again.
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Another look at the new classic on shooting down baseball myths, by The Joy of Sox blog. Upshot: For those of you thinking “Who cares?” or “Why ruin a good story?”, stay away from this book. But if you’re as curious as I am about how Neyer went about his investigations and when he found […]
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And no, we’re not advocating burning them. This piece from the Pride of the Yankees blog on NJ.com features 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees, Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia, and Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The House That Ruth Built”
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Let’s get this straight: I can’t stand Howard Stern, I find him a vulgar person. It’s my wife who enjoys him and his minions. So for Hanukka, I gave her a copy of Artie Lange’s new book Too Fat To Fish. I mention this only because he has an extensive section about how he and […]
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It’s too late to attend the book signing, but not to let to learn about Dave Clark’s memoirs, Diamond in the Rough, published by iUniverse and written with Roger Neumann a reporter for the Corning (NY) Star-Gazette. Clark, who was afflicted by polio, pitched with the assistance of crutches. Now suffering from the effects of […]
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As presented by Seamheads.com, “Satchel Paige, 1960”, an excerpt from Scott Simkis’ manuscript, America’s International Baseball Freak Show.
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From those great folks at TheBaseballAnalysts, part one of a multi-part deconstruction of the James’ essential.
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From one of my “competitors,” the GreatBaseballBooks blog, this brief item on David Surdam’s The Postwar Yankees: Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited. Upshot: Surdam’s writing is straightford [sic] but not boring. If you need to read something by an economist, you could do much worse.
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Dear Joe, Welcome to LA. Tommy Lasorda is thrilled about your arrival. Now you have someone to talk to in Italian. Too bad he canceled the parade for you, but when he found out he couldn’t be in the lead car… well, we all knew you’d understand. Hey, at least you don’t have to wash […]
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To Peter Schilling, Jr. The St. Louis Post Dispatch picked his novel as one of the best books of 2008, to wit: The End of Baseball by Peter Schilling Jr. (Ivan R. Dee, 352 pages, $25). Baseball’s 1944 Brownies live again in this rollicking novel. Owner Bill Veeck shines in fiction, just as he did […]
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An Unofficial Journal of Baseball’s Best Fans, Volume #1 By Will Byington It takes a special person to be a Cubs fan. With such a rich history of failure and disappointment, some would call them masochists, but looking at the photos and reading the stories in Byington’s new book, they seem happy enough. (Of course, […]
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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
