Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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From the eclectic PitchersndPoets site comes the “Rogue’s Baseball Index,” a sort of urban dictionary about the national pastime. RBI is divided into several categories, including entries about players, fans, management, media, et al. A random entry: The George Will is a hyper-intellectualized fan who gets so caught up in the history and legend and […]
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Or at least Bill Lee. From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame Teams Up with NASAto Help Students Bring Baseball to Mars COOPERSTOWN, NY – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has its sights set on Mars. And its plans just might include bats, gloves and balls – if some Central New York […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when, for the fourth consecutive year, it hosts the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Oct. 2-4. Thirteen films, with themes ranging from women in baseball to a baseball league in Israel, will be screened as filmmakers compete for […]
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Taking a few days off to head down to our nation’s capital where I’ll be conventioning at the annual Society for American Baseball Research get-together. Looking forward to finally meeting so many good people I’ve only known through the Internet and e-mail. Talk amongst yourselves ’til I get back next week.
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Dover Publications, under the direction of contributing editor Paul Dickson, has just begun a series of classic books on sports with an emphasis on baseball titles, which are running about 3:1 over other sports. The line will be varied to include fiction but its early emphasis is on autobiography and oral history. Connie Mack’s My […]
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The University of Nebraska Press, which puts out many wonderful baseball titles under its own and Bison Books imprints, was named Independent Publisher of 2008 by ForeWord Magazine at the Book Expo America convention this weekend. During the ForeWord Book of the Year awards ceremony, ForeWord publisher Victoria Sutherland called the University of Nebraska Press […]
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May seems to be arts month across the country, and it should be no surprise that baseball would be well represented. *** George Krevsky Gallery’s (77 Geary Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco) presents its 12th annual baseball exhibition featuring artists from across the country capturing America’s national pastime in paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture. The […]
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This piece on MyCentralJourney.com features an exhibit on baseball in the Garden State running through June 27. The Revival of Professional Baseball in New Jersey, an exhibit in the second-floor gallery of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street, Newark, highlights the return of baseball as a community activity in New Jersey, and encompasses every one […]
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The line comes from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Go look it up. But I’ll tell you it refers to ganging up on someone unmercifully. Not that I have any sympathy for Roger Clemens, but jeez, guys, enough already. How many ways can you say “ham and eggs?” (Sorry, Rabbi.) Jeff Perlman’s book on Clemens […]
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From Mark Armour of SABR: I would like to announce the publication of the new book “Lefty, Double-X, and The Kid: The 1939 Red Sox, a Team in Transition,” edited by Bill Nowlin and published recently by Rounder Books. (Anticipating the usual question, “Gee Mark, why did you decide to do a book about a […]
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Each year SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era. The three other finalists for the award: Rick Huhn for Eddie Collins, Tom Swift for Chief Bender’s Burden, and Michael Lynch for […]
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SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. Ritter was the author/editor of The Glory of Their Times, a seminal book of baseball oral history. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era (McFarland). The three other Finalists for the […]
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Because you can frame the ticket stubs and put them on the bookshelf…Or simply the book, The Year the Yankees Lost First The Pennant, by Douglas Wallop, on which the musical was based. So, a remake of Damn Yankees, starring Jim Carrey as the Devil and Jake Gyllenhaal as “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo?” Seems […]
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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
