Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
by Derek Gentile. MVP Books, 2009. This was one of these titles that, too me and like many movie trailers, was more exciting than the actual product. I was actually expetcing a philosophical (or at least mock) treatise about how the Bronx Bombers reflected many issues of life, the ups and downs, the victories and […]
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Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality, by Jeff Pearlman. Harper, 2009. Over the last several years, almost every baseball fan — and a lot of non-fans as well — have felt a sense of betrayal. Their heroes have feet of clay; the emperor has no clothes. What makes the situation all the more […]
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USA Today published this list of “Five authors make a pitch for baseball.” I wonder how hard Milano’s PR people are pushing the book. To be honest, I have not read it and want to be fair. But to have hers get top billing over thoughtful and laborious efforts by the likes of Paul Dickson, […]
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Another review of Bruce Weber’s book on umpires? This one is by Jim Bouton, and the author of the seminal Ball Four, who does his usual witty job. But as interesting as it is to get different takes, one wonders why the publication that employs Weber would publish more than one critique just over a […]
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From PR Newswire: In the midst of its continuing steroid scandal, baseball’s redeeming moments are highlighted in Hugh Poland’s Intentional Walk: More Devotions for Baseball Fans (Spring Arbor/Ingram Book Co.). With spring training underway and fans restless with anticipation for a new season, Intentional Walk shares inspiring stories from the clubhouse, the dugout, and the […]
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Scroll down yesterday’s post on Odd Man Out to read the excellent comments to date. For more, visit The Perpetual Post.
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Scott Simon reviews Bruce Weber’s new book on umpires. You can read an excerpt here.
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This item from The New York Times casts another shadow over a new book. In The Rocket Who Fell to Earth, Jeff Pearlman’s new biography on Roger Clemens, the author reports an account offered by an unnamed Yankee episode in which Brian Cashman purportedly took Jason Giambi to task for poor performance by shouting at […]
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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain […]
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Ordinarily, I wouldn’t go back to a review of The Yankee Years; that so over. But I’ll make an exception for Roger Angell. The veteran sportswriter praises the work of both Torre and Verducci (“Verducci has range and ease; he’s a shortstop on the page.”) In the book, it’s a rush when you reach those […]
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Dermont McEvoy of Publishers Weekly published the magazine’s annual baseball roundup. No surprise, but this year’s selections are heavy on the “bad boy” books, including Selena Robert’s A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez (April, Harper Collins). PW contacted Roberts’s editor at HarperCollins, senior v-p/ executive editor David Hirshey. Hirshey, who in the past has […]
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According to an item in Publishers Weekly daily email, there will be a new sports-heavy imprint launching this spring. MVP Books, an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, will specialize in “distinctive, high-quality books for the sports enthusiast,” with both illustrated coffeetable books and narrative nonfiction in a hardcover format. The MVP titles to hit the […]
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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
* Alyssa Milano, baseball auteur
March 23, 2009
You knew this was coming. Why does Milano get to do a baseball book? What does she bring to the table other than being a “connected” fan? Is there an order form in the back of the book to order from her line of MLB-available clothing?
Tagged as: Alyssa Milano
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