Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Short notice, but from Ballpark Digest: “If you’re planning a visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown this week, we’d recommend scheduling your visit for Thursday, June 18, when our Eric Vickrey kicks off the annual Hall of Fame Author Series to discuss Before They Wore Dodger Blue: Tommy Lasorda […]
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Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. A reminder: 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 […]
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Mazel tov to Phil Rosenzweig whose One Splendid Season: Baseball and America in 1912, Told with the Words and Images of the Hassan Triplefolder Set won SABR’s Larry Ritter Award which honors “the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919 published during the previous calendar year.” You can read more about it from the […]
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By Tim Brown. Appearing on Bookreporter.com: Being able to watch videos of the baseball heroes of my youth from the 1960s and ’70s makes it hard for me to reconcile that they are now old men, and, by extension, so am I. Some, like 90-year-old Sandy Koufax, look like they still sneak one by the […]
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The Hall of Fame is gearing up for its annual Author Series Program. I did this back in 2017 to discuss Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War and it was a hoot. The schedule for this summer includes: Saturday, June 6, 1 p.m. – We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball, […]
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The Wall Street Journal reviewed Nolan: The Singular Life of an American Original, by Tim Brown. Look for my piece on the book on Bookreporter.com later this week. LocalNewsPasadena ran this profile of Brown. Wish I could be there for this one: Michael Schur and Joe Posnanski, authors of Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, […]
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“New Book … Brings St. Louis Baseball History Back to Life.” Said book is titled 50 Forgotten Cardinals and “uncovers the stories of players whose contributions to the St. Louis Cardinals have faded from mainstream memory—but remain essential to the rich fabric of the team’s history,” according to a press release. It seems to only […]
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Steve Kettman, a former Bookshelf Conversation guest, discusses his work on Dusty Baker’s new book, Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life (out June 9). A reminder: The National Baseball Poetry Festival will be held May 7-10 at Polar Park in Worcester, MA. I had a BC with Steve Biondilillo, founder of the Festival, earlier this […]
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Congrats to Sandy Koufax for winning Baseball Digest’s sixth annual Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement appears in the May/June 2026 issue. “The name Sandy Koufax has become a synonym for ‘great pitcher,’” according to Baseball Digest publisher David Fagley. Koufax turned 90 this past December and still looks like he could toss an inning or […]
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I can’t remember where I first saw an article about nightstand books, but it made me stop and think. At any one time, I am juggling my reading. Ninety percent is baseball, but you have to mix in other things just to spice it up. This is what’s currently on my nightstand. I always try […]
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I reviewed four New York-themed baseball titles for Bookreporter.com last week, including: The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner by Mike Vaccaro Mickey & Billy: The Glory and Tragedy of a Yankee Friendship, by Tony Castro The Heyday of Willie, Buke and Mickey: New York City Baseball’s Golden […]
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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
