Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Ok, hurication is over. Time to get back to some semblance of normalcy. I hope y’all are okay out there. We came out unscathed save for a couple of days without power; presently we have no cable/Internet service, but no complaints given what so many others are going through. Before the power went out we […]
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Waiting for the galleys for a final look-see and to create the index. Should be interesting, plus a skill I can use in the future. Thinking about what promotional goodies I can order: postcards, bookmarks, life-size bust of the author. You know, the usual. I wonder what guys like Carl Sandburg or Charles Dickens would […]
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The corrections to the manuscript have been made by my copywriter, Tyler, an most excellent fellow, and sent back to UNP for galley-making. My next challenge is to construct the index, which sounds like an interesting undertaking. I have been in the process of contacting as many of the extant authors as I can find […]
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Hope you all had a great holiday weekend and a great summer. Now, it’s back to business, at least for me. In case you were wondering, and I guess you weren’t seeing as you don’t call and you don’t write if you haven’t seen me for a few days (sniff), I was busy over the […]
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Just an update about my forthcoming book, 501 Books Baseball Fans Must Read Before They Die. I starting to believe this thing is really going to happen. Received the copyedited manuscript and am going through it a couple of times, for language edits and to fill in a couple of citation questions, etc. And the […]
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Actually, it was Mr. Federal Express Man. Received the penultimate revision of my manuscript back from the University of Nebraska Press. All nicely formatted and awaiting my overview and approval. Very cool. I have three weeks to get it back. I assume the next step would be settling on graphic elements, then creating the index. […]
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Perhaps the nicest part of doing a book is when people you respect say something nice as “advance praise.” I’ve asked a few of my favorites to consider doing a blurb and only one declined. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all.. I received the first one this morning; it’s quite the ego-boost. I won’t […]
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Well, the first round of edits are done. Now it goes to line editing, for a more careful going over. I must say I was disappointed in myself when I got the files back and found so many typos. There are always going to be artistic conflicts over wording. Perhaps if this was a novel […]
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Sorry it’s been a bit slow lately, but I’ve been trying to finish the first round of edits from the publisher for my forthcoming book, 501 Baseball Titles the Literate Fan Must Read with has an “official” release in the spring of 2013. It’s been very educational, I must say. For example, I was a […]
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Starting to gets chapters back from the publisher for corrections/edits. One step closer to fruition. Whee! A caveat: because this is such a long procedure — again, the book is not due out until next year — it does not include several of the interesting titles that are coming out this year. I may ask […]
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Just received an email from my editor at University of Nebraska Press, who’s is in the process of send back the manuscript for final changes and edits. Whee! 501 Baseball Books the Literate Fan Must Read is due out in 2013.
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The 501 titles for the manuscript have been selected! Now comes the part where I put it all into the format required by the publisher There are actually a few more 501; I imagine as I tinker and fine tune, I will replace a few. One of the pleasant problems has been rediscovering old favorites […]
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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
Winding down and getting worked up
September 7, 2011
Almost done with the first go-around on Project 501. One thing that slows the process is that I want to re-read a lot of these books, which I will definitely do once I send the manuscript off to the publisher. Another thing that slows the process is that my typing skills are failing me, at […]
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