Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
All I know about Yankton, South Dakota, was that it was an element in one of my all-time favorite TV shows, Deadwood. Al Swearengen: Bloodletting on my premises that I ain’t approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. Hearst:How do we know when you are off your feed? Al […]
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Our long national holiday being over, it’s time to get back to work. Had the opportunity to finish (and re-finish) a couple of baseball books over the last few days. I found Doc, the memoirs of fallen super-ace Dwight Gooden, a frustrating experience. On the one hand I thought it was a great self-assessment of […]
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“The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World”
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(Just substitute 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die for “a new book.” Thank you.)
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I don’t do this too often, look at how the book is doing via Amazon’s convoluted ranking system. Early on I might check it once every couple of days and was thrilled by how well it was doing, ranking as high as 9,005 among all books. And I know the window is relatively brief, that […]
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Spent a very nice evening at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse on May 9, chatting about the new book. An intimate group attended. My wife accompanied me there and commented on how knowledgeable they all seemed to be on the general topic and how impressive the conversation was. My […]
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Apologies for the lapse in posting. New computers at the office and at home and necessitated some down time. So where were we? The very kind Tom Hoffarth concludes his 30/30 series with my 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die. His previous week included: ==Day 29: The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: […]
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At least among the researchers and library set. According to Amazon.com, 501 Baseball Books is: #1 in Books > Education & Reference > Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Publishing & Books > Bibliographies & Indexes > Literature
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I went to the bookstore and what did I see? 501 Baseball Books, looking back at me… Made my semi-regular trip to the Barnes and Noble near my office. Now, the book doesn’t officially come out until April 1 (no fooling, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk), but since I know some readers — to whom I am […]
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An unexpected, but most welcome, surprise: Thrilled that (as of this moment) 501 is in the top 100 baseball titles, but it’s also the #3 title in the category of “Literary Bibliographies & Indexes,” as well as #47 in “General Books & Reading.”
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Got a nice writeup for 501 from Benjamin Hill at MiLB.com yesterday, which you can read here. Perhaps just as important, he sent this link to videos of several more teams doing the Harlem Shake, Gangham Minor League style. Enjoy.
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I always wanted a cool nickname. When I was manager of the Brooklyn College baseball team, it was always lazy stuff like “Kap.” When I was a softball instructor at camp in Montreal, it was “Brooks,” for Brooklyn. But NOW… Just noticed this on the spine of the book. They call me…
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
