Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Mel Foster narrates this unabridged version of Feinstein’s latest baseball title. That’s almost 19 hours of listening to what sounds very much like a computer-generated voice. Which is a shame, because the book — which considers the approach to the game by two veteran pitchers (Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina) — albeit long and with […]
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Ossie Davis narrated Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, which was released as an audiobook earlier this year. Davis, who died in 2005, was born in 1917, two years before Robinson, so it seems quite appropriate that he would lend his “old man’s voice” to the project, making it seem like the great player himself was doing the […]
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General: Moneyball, by Michael Lewis Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams and John Underwood. Essays and Writings: Ball Four, by Jim Bouton. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. The Mental […]
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From the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the first of a two-parter on historical books about the Tigers. The premise of this piece on The Perfect Season seems quite different. The author went through every Detroit season and pieced together the best wins in franchise history. The first chapter tells the story of the best opening-day win, […]
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The article includes titles that run the gamut from statistics to biography to stadium appreciation. For a list, actually, then reviews, but good suggestions.
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The former general manager of the Burlington Indians and author of Cradle of the Game: Baseball and Ballparks in North Carolina, will be at the NewBridge Bank Park on Saturday, August 9.
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From Texas Pages, which provides information about writers, books and events in the Lone Star state, the following announcement: * Forced Out, by Stephen Frey (Atria, $24.95). Follows a baseball scout, player and mafia hitman as their destinies converge.
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General: Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. T Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. Living in the Black, by John Feinstein. Yankee Stadium: A Tribute: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008, by Les Krantz. The 33-Year Old Rookie, by Chris Coste Essays and Writings: You Can Learn a […]
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From Hour.ca, a Canadian Website, these briefs on: Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Takes a Swing at Baseball Baseball’s Best 1,000: Rankings of the Skills, the Achievements and the Performance of the Greatest Players of All Time The Worst Call Ever! (not strictly a baseball book, but close enough for jazz) Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World’s […]
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Sarah Freligh, a former sportswriter with the Philadelphia Inquirer recently published Sort of Gone, a collection of poems centering on the career of a veteran pitcher, both on and off the field. She took a few minutes to discuss her craft with the bookshelf in an e-mail Q&A: * * * Bookshelf: Why did you […]
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From the Washington Post, this none-too-complimentary review. Upshot: …[W]here a prudent historian might see a daunting challenge, this first-time author sees opportunity. His book is a riot of unlikely coincidences, composite characters, and long, maudlin speeches apparently recalled verbatim. Moore tries to gloss over this problem in his introduction with a note of humility, writing […]
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From Onlyinhouston.org. There are players — such as the Astros’ perennial favorite — who have magnificent careers, do all the right things, etc., but fail to put up those lofty numbers that Hall of Famers achieve. So should he be a candidate? Where does he fit in? Jeff Kent, for example, is a former MVP […]
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From Philosopher Stone.
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
* 202 reasons to be annoyed
August 2, 2008
In 2006, Roy Green published 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees and 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox. Released by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, these were nice little books (a similar book about the Mets also came out that year), full of pictures and brief texts about the author’s favorite moments and people for […]
Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees
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