Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Trying something a bit new in this age of coronavirus. Thanks — if that’s the appropriate word — to the current situation, we have a lot of “necessity is the mother of invention” going on. That’s how the Pandemic Baseball Book Club was born. The program is the brainchild of Jason Turbow, author of They […]
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Getting an early start since I’m home and have binge-watched all I can stand for the moment. Didn’t post one of these last week, so curious to see how many — if any — brand new titles have made the list. So, shall we? Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Is it just me, or have we seem to have more than pour fair share of Friday the 13ths recently? As we inch closer and closer not just to the beginning of the playing season, but the reading season as well when new titles hit the stores. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, […]
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As we inch closer and closer not just to the beginning of the playing season, but the reading season as well when new titles hit the stores. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time […]
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As we inch closer and closer not just to thebe ginning of the playing season, but the reading season as well when new titles hit the stores. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time […]
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As we inch closer and closer not just to thebe ginning of the playing season, but the reading season as well when new titles hit the stores. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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The end of January already?? Where did the time go? Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally […]
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, by Paul Goldberger (Knopf, 2019) Like a lot of New Year’s resolutions, this one didn’t make it past the fourth week. Just got too hard to sustain. Plus I had to prepare for my talk on Garden State All-Stars for the Northern New Jersey Chapter’s SABR Day event, during […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Bill James Handbook 2020 (Acta Sports 2019) Like the game itself, James has come a long way since his Abstracts of the late seventies and early eighties. He has grown into the guru of analytics. He has changed the way we look at the game, not just relying on “baseball card stats.” But can you […]
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No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing, by Joe Bonomo (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) There are a handful of people I would love to have on as a guest for a Bookshelf Conversation, the podcast segment of this blog: James Earl Jones, Dennis Haysbert, John Thorn and, […]
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For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball, by Bud Selig with Phil Rogers There’s a scene in the movie Lincoln, in which the president, working on a telegram in the middle of the night during a watershed moment of the Civil War, asks […]
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Now Taking the Field: Baseball’s All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises, by Tom Stone (ACTA Sports, 2019) If you’re looking for an argument, this is a good place to start. Stone has done diligence, not only in compiling the figures but by fine-tuning his picks with keen observations that may or may not hold […]
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First entry of the new decade. Hubba-hubba. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
