Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From Glenn Stout, via Facebook: The deadline for submissions to The Best American Sports Writing 2011, to be guest edited by Jane Leavy, is February 1, 2011. Please send all submissions according to the guidelines that appear in any recent edition or on my website, www.glennstout.net. Naturally, my big complain with this otherwise excellent series […]
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Bill Conlin was just named recipient for the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, given by the Baseball Hall of Fame for “meritorious contributions to baseball writing.” The long-time beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News published Batting Cleanup Bill Conlin, a collection of his columns, in 1997 and edited The Rutledge Book of Baseball in 1981. […]
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Congrats to Tim Sackett, winner of the October Bookshelf Give-Away: Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye. The book was named winner of the two top baseball literary awards: The Seymour Medal from the Society for American baseball Research, and Spitball Magazine‘s Casey Award. The November book will be another […]
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Todd Ricketts, one of the owners of the Chicago Cubs, goes undercover within one of baseball’s most famous franchises and fights for the chance to redeem himself after being let go on the second day on UNDERCOVER BOSS, Sunday, Nov. 7 on CBS! Related articles Chicago Cubs Exec Throws a Curve to ‘Undercover Boss’ (dailyfinance.com) […]
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As previously mentioned on more than one occasion, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on a better […]
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As mentioned earlier this week, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on a better designation) takes a […]
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Image via Wikipedia I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and at this time of the year we’re putting together our post-season awards. It’s my honor to be president (for lack of a better title) of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance […]
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From MLB.com: With the MLB Postseason underway, a one-of-a-kind item celebrating the game’s history is now available through a special charity auction on MLB.com. The Official Major League Baseball Opus tells the story of baseball’s heritage on a scale unmatched in the history of illustrated publishing. Measuring 20 inches square and weighing 75 pounds with […]
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There will be a public memorial service for Maury Allen, on Sunday, Oct. 10, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Yogi Berra Stadium, adjacent to the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, NJ on the campus of Montclair State University.
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Some new programs are coming to a television near you. Ken Burns tacks The Tenth Inning onto his wonderful Baseball miniseries, which originally aired in 1995. The two-part, four-hour epilogue airs on PBS Sept. 28-29 at 8 p.m. EST, but as they say, check your local listings. You’ll probably have to adjust the volume on […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will host the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Oct. 1-3. As part of the three-day event, Billy Crystal, who directed and executive produced the classic film 61*, will be on hand as the Hall of Fame celebrates his 2001 production that told the story of the 1961 […]
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I can still picture it in my mind: Reading Ball Four during summer camp days back in 1970. In fact I still have that original volume in my library. So it’s shocking to me that it’s been 40 years since Jim Bouton’s watershed memoir was published. Bouton was quite generous with his time in speaking […]
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This announcement comes via The Baseball Reliquary: The Baseball Reliquary presents “Ball Four Turns Forty,” an exhibition celebrating one of the great books in American literature, Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its publication. The exhibition, which opened on Aug. 9, runs through Oct. 1, 2010 in the lobby […]
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Two of my favorite people — Rob Neyer and author/artist Kadir (We Are the Ship) Nelson met for this brief discussion (with a nod to Monty Python and the Holy Grail). GhostTheory.com posted this entry on Field of Screams: Haunted Tales from the Baseball Diamond, the Locker Room and Beyond, by Mickey Bradley and Dan […]
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Congratulations to Keith Sherwood of Columbia, TN, July’s Facebook Fan winner of Will Leitch’s Are We Winning: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball. The August book will be Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger, by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg (Scribner).
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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
Announcement: Time after Time
August 26, 2010
Bloosmbury will re-release the classic Take Time for Paradise, originally published by the late A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989. From the Bloomsbury catalog: A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti’s long-out-of-print final book….puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with […]
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