Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Being the cheap bastard that I am, I wait until after Christmas to buy my calendars. The local book chain has them down 50 percent. If I didn’t care about what I get, I could wait another few weeks when they’ll be $1 each. But they had the one I wanted so I’m happy. I’m […]
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‘Tis the season for the various awards to start announcing their nominees. Surprisingly, Moneyball is up for four Golden Globe Awards, including best drama (!), actor in a movie drama (Brad Pitt), supporting actor in a movie (Jonah Hill), and best screenplay (Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian). Rob Neyer, SB Nation’s baseball editor and a […]
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Eephus League, the brainchild of Bethany Heck, is an eclectic and imaginative on-line magazine. Next year it will make the leap to a print edition. You can see a sample online here. Judging just by the preview, it looks great. Well-produced, graphically-sharp, and fun! I haven’t seen anything like it since the short-lived 108 a […]
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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
