Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 23. Title Rank General The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 1 The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 2 Moneyball: The […]
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And Other Tales from the Edge of Baseball Fandom, by Emma Span (Villard, 2010) As much as I love baseball, there are times when I take a step back and wonder, “What am I doing with this nonsense? Surely, there are better ways to spend my time and energies.” And at the risk of being […]
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This article appeared in the April 15 edition of the New Jersey Jewish News. Tempered with the excitement of Opening Day, some baseball fans have to contend with the end of a tradition, even if it was only a few years old: 2010 marks the final release of the Jewish Major Leaguer card set. According […]
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 16. Title Rank General The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 1 The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 2 Willie Mays: […]
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Sorry, about the lateness. Life and everything, you know. The Baseball Preview issue. Yes! So, of course, you’re going to have the team profiles. Yada, yada, yada. One-page wonders that list the projected starting lineup, a statistical nugget, a “player to watch,” and a “modest proposal” on how to make the team better. The major […]
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Some additional baseball book roundups: The Chicago Tribune: Willie Mays: The Life , The Legend; Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards; Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s; and Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the Golden Age of Baseball The Cleveland […]
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An ambitious task, but Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News is taking up the challenge once again as he highlights an eclectic group of titles for 2010 with a mix of humor and insight in his blog, “Farther off the Wall.” Today’s pick is Tim Salmon’s Always an Angel: Playing the Game with […]
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 9. Title Rank General The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 1 The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 2 Willie Mays: […]
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Baseball America ran this interview with Dirk Hayhurst, author of The Baseball Gospels. Hayhurst is currently on the Blue Jays’ 60-day disabled list, which gives him lots of time to hump his boo, which reportedly will be on the NY Times‘ next best-seller list. * * * Slate published this entertaining (and too-brief) comparison of […]
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Traditionally, this is the time of year when newspapers (remember those?) run round-ups of baseball book reviews (like this one by yours truly on Bookreporter.com). They’re good for those with short attention spans, since they tend to cover multiple titles briefly (but then, if that’s your problem, how will you get through the books themselves?). […]
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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
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April 11, 2010
A couple of book-related items in today’s New Yotk Times sports section: In the print edition, Tim Wendel wrote “They Could Throw That Speedball,” as part of the “Spotlight” column, about the difficulties in coming up with the definitive answer to the question, “who was the fastest pitcher in history?” With all due respect to […]
Tagged as: Dixie Walker, Maury Allen, New York Times, Susan Walker, Tim Wendel
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