Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The latest author Q&A for “501 Baseball Books” is now up on the site: Tom Stanton, author of The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark and The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime (Thomas Dunne Books).
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The bad news? Publishers Weekly published their list of “The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2013” and 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die didn’t make it. The good news? No other sports books made the list (schadenfreude).
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For those of you who weren’t able to listen “live” to my interview on Lincoln Live with host Dale Johnson on KFOR-AM earlier today, (even though the interview was actually taped last Friday), you can hear it here: [audio:http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LincolnLive.mp3|titles=LincolnLive] http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LincolnLive.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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With so many books I haven’t gotten to, I find it almost wasteful to reread books I’ve enjoyed (who would revisit one they didn’t enjoy? That’s like saying “this is a picture of me when I was younger.” As the late comedian Mitch Hedberg once said, “Every picture of you is when you were younger.” […]
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Happy new year, everybody. Best wishes for a healthy and contented 2013. Now that the writing and production part of 501 is over, I hope to bring more fun interviews, features, and reviews. AND… New Year, new book, new blog. I just launched the stand-alone site for 501. Please visit it and like it on […]
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501 update: Received the index back for a bit of very minor revising. Then it’s really done. Gratified by the very early interest by members of the media in doing reviews. Bruce Markusen over at The Hardball Times offers another in his series of “baseball card mysteries.” This time it’s Dave Nelson’s 1973 Topps. Speaking […]
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Sent in the index last night and just now found out I have a publicist. (How pretentious must that sound. “Give me your info and I’ll put you in touch with my publicist.”) In the meantime, I’m working on a new stand-alone web presence for the book, then it’s time to relax for a couple […]
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Finished! At least with the galleys. The index comes next. I find the who author process fascinating. No matter how many times you look at it, there’s always something that can or should change. In some cases, a typo has managed to get through despite spell-check, several thorough going-overs, a copy editor, another going-over, a […]
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Haven’t been posting much lately for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I’ve been working on the final galleys for the 501 book. Almost done with that and then I have to create the index, which should be interesting. I’ve also been researching a stand-alone web-presence for the book, which is proving a bit […]
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In one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, speech therapist Lionel Logue and the future King of England share the following exchange during their first meeting: I was reminded of this today when I learned that the new University of Nebraska Press catalog had just been released and there it is, […]
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I received galleys for 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die last week, but due to a glitch, I’ve very temporarily put it aside. Seems when I wanted to include a few 2012 titles to make it more up-to-date I erred in informing the publisher where they fit in. The entries are all […]
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♦ Here’s an oldie but a goodie via eBay: a copy of H. Allen Smith’s classic Rhubarb, about a cat who inherits a baseball team. ♦ The novel was turned into a 1951 feature film starring Ray Milland (who was also the lead in the 1949 baseball comedy It Happens Every Spring), Jan Stirling, Gene […]
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Just received the galleys for my forthcoming book, 501 Books Baseball Fans Must Read before They Die. Very exciting. Seems like this is really going to happen (knock on wood).
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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
So many headlines, so little time
January 7, 2013
Some choices include: I wasn’t told there would be math on this test. Why can’t the U.S be in one time zone? Is that 12 a.m. midnight? Well, we’re off to a flying start. My first radio interview for 501, my first attempt at posting an “Event” on the Facebook page and what do I do? […]
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