Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
From TheHardBallTimes, this review of Bill Reynolds’’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City. Upshot: Despite many faults, HBT reviewer Chris Jaffe concludes, “I enjoyed this book far more than I expected to because of its considerable strengths. Though it couldn’t quite fuse its elements, Reynolds didn’t try to force fusion […]
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Prince and and Jason Fry host the entertaining and thought-provoking Mets’ blog, Faith and Fear in Flushing. He compiled many of the sentiments from the blog, added a lot of personal insight, and published a like-titled book. Be;ieve it or not, this isn’t even his day job: Prince is a writer, editor, and communications consultant whose […]
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Would it seem silly to you to devote an entire book that showed a particular baseball was not the one hit by Bobby Thomson in the 1951 playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. That how I felt when I read this piece in The New Daily News on Miracle Ball: My Search for the Shot […]
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These days, publishing companies are calling on their authors to do even more in terms of getting the word out about their new projects, be it web sites, blogs, or videos such as this one by Chafets, whose Cooperstown Confidential (Bloomsbury) comes out in July. He wrote this commentary on A-Rod (who hit a home […]
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Don’t you just feel so sorry for authors who works so hard to put out a book, then, as soon as it hits the stores, something happens to rendered it outdated? Such is the case for Becoming Manny:Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger, by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg. News that Ramirez was […]
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A joint review of two new books by former Mets graces the pages of the Sunday Times Book Review Section. Under the general headline “The Boys of Bummer,” Bruce Handy, a writer and deputy editor of Vantiy Fair, critiques Ron Darling’s The Perfect Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, and Darryl […]
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Remember when I noted that the robert’s book on A-Rod was coming out on May 12? Oc fourse you don’t, which is why I’m putting a link here. Well scratch that. According to the Times, it comes out May 4. “A-Rod, The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” (HarperCollins), by Selena Roberts, asserts that Rodriguez used […]
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RiverAveBlues.com, the official Yankees blog of the YES Network, recently ran this review of Jane Heller’s book.
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the day I turn to poetry. At least as it pertains to baseball. Although I write the weekly “Torah Haiku” for the NJ Jewish News, I generally don’t like the genre. Actually it’s not so much that I don’t like it as I don’t get it. Like wine. I probably wouldn’t be able to tell […]
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As he did last year, Tom Hoffarth took on the arduous challenge of providing his readers of the Los Angeles Daily News with a baseball book review a day. The result is an excellent look at some of the top books on the game, as well as some that might have fallen under the radar. […]
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First it was the endless chatter about The Yankee Years. Seems the media just couldn’t keep their yaps shut about how Joe Torre dissed his players and bosses, blowing totally out of proportion thefew entries that actually addressed said topics. Well, brace yourselves, boys and girls. It’s about to happen again. When the news first […]
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One of the things I liked most about working for STATS Inc. was going to the ballpark, having a seat waiting for me in the press box, and being treated (almost) like any veteran member of the media. That included perks such as all matter of printed material, including media guides. For those who may […]
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I always enjoy finding pieces on baseball lit from unexpected sources. Here’s one more. The question stemmed from a previous entry on the Alyssa Milano book.
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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
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May 5, 2009
Loathe as I am to get dirty with the A-Rod book, I feel I would be derelict in my “duty” to ignore it. So we’ll try to make this as painless as possible. I’m still waiting for my copy, so I’m just passing along what I’ve read. The news falls into three basic camps: those […]
Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Selena Roberts
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