Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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MLB.com reports on the process by the reliever in completing the game with his Free Byrd The 37-year-old Byrd, who notched his 100th career win Friday against the Tigers, began compiling the journal entries that became the basis for his manuscript with the thought that they would be worth sharing with his sons. Eventually, a […]
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TSN used to be called “the Bible of baseball.” As a youth used to spend my 50 cents of allowance for the tabloid paper which contained storied, capsule recaps and box scores, and tons of stats in a pre-Bill James era. There have been several major shifts over the years. For one thing, the decision […]
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This Friday, June 13. Please join us for a chance to win 2 free Cubs tickets, as well as meet author Lew Freedman of the highly acclaimed book, Then Ozzie Said to Harold: The Best Chicago White Sox Stories Ever Told. Tinley Park High School’s Baseball Team will conduct a treasure hunt in-store, as well […]
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The author of Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots,will be at the Kingston (NY) Barnes and Noble, 1177 Ulster Ave., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m. Leave the gloves at home.
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The 20th annual Symposium on Baseball and American Culture will be Wednesday through Friday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. The event will feature more than 50 presentations on baseball’s effect on American culture, the highest number in the history of the symposium, according to a news release. The event […]
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From a press release: One of the most famous and beloved baseball legends of all times is Mickey Mantle. Many books and articles have been written about the sports hero. In his new book, Mickey Mantle, Rookie in Pinstripes, author Fred Glueckstein, delivers an in-depth account of Mickey Mantle’s life covering his early life to […]
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According to Richard Deitsch’s “Media Circus” column on SI.com, Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Tin Cup), is working on a script of the Fainaru-Wada/Williams book for HBO. “The film will air on HBO (likely in 2009) and will be directed by Shelton if his schedule permits,” writes Deitsch.
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for those interested in such things. Spring 2008 Newsletter This issue’s reviews and features include: Dreaming Baseball, by James Farrell. Reviewed by Leverett T. Smith, Jr. Baseball Magic, by Jay Martin. Reviewed by Robert W. Hamblin. Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, The Lies, and Everything Else, by Rob Neyer. Reviewed by […]
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According to this story in the Los Angeles Daily News, the court martial papers for Jackie Robinson are being auctioned by Memory Lane, a sports memorabilia dealer in Tustin, in public event that ends at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 24. So there’s still time.
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From the La Jolla Light Web site: Negro League baseball author at D.G. Wills May 24 Acclaimed Author and Illustrator Kadir Nelson will discuss his new book We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball on Saturday May 24 at 7 p.m., at D.G.Wills Books. Nelson will be introduced by baseball historian Bill […]
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From a press release from the publisher: You Can Learn a Lot by Watching: What I’ve Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life by Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan (John Wiley & Sons) What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture […]
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This AP piece in the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald reminds us that Torre is still coming out with a book next year.
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Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best baseball history or biography of 2007. Also recognized as “finalists” were Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman Macht and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos, Jr. Author Lee Lowenfish will receive […]
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The headline — “Lulu.com Creator Hits One Out of the Park With Dugout Wisdom” — would seem to imply that Migala created Lulu.com, which is erroneous, according to Lulu’s Web site. In Dugout Wisdom: Life Lessons From Baseball, author Dan Migala finds the heart in baseball, collecting and sharing words of wisdom from 55 greats […]
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Wowio.com, a great (albeit somewhat limited) source for free, downloadable books in PDF format offers a few surprisingly high-quality baseball titles in its inventory. All you need to do is register and you can download a maximum of three titles per day. As of this writing — and new books are added frequently — the […]
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From an e-mail via SABR: Sock It to ‘Em Tigers: The Incredible Story of the 1968 Detroit Tigers, a joint effort of SABR and the Mayo Smith Society, is now available from Maple Street Press. Edited/project-managed by David Raglin and myself In the best tradition of Rounder Books’ tomes on the 1975 and 1967 Boston […]
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Duquesne University “promotes from within” as it issues this press release about the book, published by the University of Nebraska Press, co-authored by Robert V. Bellamy Jr., an associate journalism professor at DU. You can visit the book’s Web site here.
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For some, it’s Christmas catalogs. For others, it’s gardening. For me, it’s book catalgs from publishing houses. The Fall/Winter ’08 issue from University of Nebraska just arrived and, past being prelude, there are some interesting baseball titles sprinkled throughout. Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Change Japanese Baseball, by Robert K. Fitts: In an odd switch, […]
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is the theme of Richard Sandomir’s column in today’s New York Times. The sport media writer starts off with a curious line. “Bobby Murcer did not expect to write his autobiography so soon.” Now, Murcer, a long-time Yankees favorite, has been battling cancer for some time now and will turn 62 on May 20. With […]
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Yes, according to this bitty item in The New York Times: STRAWBERRY TO WRITE A BOOK Darryl Strawberry is writing a memoir, “Straw,” that will come out in 2009, according to the publisher Ecco. Ecco is a Harper Collins imprint. Strawberry collaborated on his story once before, with Art Rust, Jr. in Darryl, published by […]
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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
