Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the category archives:
Peter Morris, who was twice won SABR’s prestigious Seymour Award, comes out with this new book, subtitled “An Informal History of baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1970.” Due out in March from Ivan R. Dee, it’s yet another look at the origins of the game as it moved from an amateur pastime to what would become big […]
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Based on Bill Veeck’s quashed attempt to buy the Philadelphia A’s and stock it with players from the Negro Leagues, The End of Baseball features a number of real-life characters, including Veeck, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who sought to keep the game lily-white); columnist Walter Winchell (the Matt Drudge of his day?); and J. Edgar […]
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José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book “Juiced,” offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder “clear” in his next book if the player invested money in a film project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the […]
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The publisher-to-be-named-later for Vindicated has been announced. And the award goes to: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, who expects the book to be released in time for opening day. According to an item in today’s New York Times, Jennifer Bergstrom, publisher of Simon Spotlight, said Bret Saxon, Canseco’s book agent, called her […]
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Publisher Out: Berkley/Penguin In: ? Collaborator Out: Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, who didn’t think there was much left that was newsworthy In: Pablo F. Fenjves, a former National Enquirer writer who was the ghost writer for O.J. Simpson’s latest, which brought down a publishing imprint (Regan Books)
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Jose Canseco’s new project is having some difficulties.
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With the glut of books on baseball and steroids about to hit the bookstores, it would seem that writers have been aching for the Mitchell Report to come out. But as anyone who knows the publishing process will tell you, these projects are planned well in advance. Nevertheless, here’s another one, from the pen/typewriter/computer of […]
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According to the Jan. 2 New York Observer, Peter Golenbock, whose most recent sexsationalized 7, his novel about Mickey Mantle drew near-unanimous scorn, has signed a contract with John Wiley & Sons to write a biography of increasingly uninvolved Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The project has a working title of The Boss. “One wonders whether […]
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According to The Media Mob column in the Jan. 2 edition of The New York Observer, SI writer S.L Price has signed a deal with Ecco, a Harper Collins imprint, to write the story of Mike Coolbaugh, a coach in the Colorado Rockies’ minor league system who was killed by a line drive while on […]
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Author Neil Spagna announced that the long awaited update to his award-winning first book, Welcome To Pottersville, will be published in hardcover to coincide with the beginning of the 2008 baseball season. Tentatively scheduled for an April 28 release date, the book will include insights on the September collapse of the New York Mets, the […]
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One blogger speaks for many when he reports that “Jose Canseco is getting on my nerves.”
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Penguin Books, which usually lends itself to more prestigious fare, will publish Jose Canseco’s sequel, Vindicated, according to this brief from yesterday’s Publisher’s Weekly. Y’all can get some sleep now.
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I can’t remember which TV sports pundit said it, but it’s a good point: If the players Canseco has named so far haven’t taken PED, wouldn’t you think they’d have looked into civil suits? Well now it’s reported he’s going to name more athletes in his new book, Vindicated, which is due out in the […]
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McFarland Publishers has a unique place in the world of baseball literature. Known for their eclectic academic work in the arts, sciences, humanities, etc. they also specialize in topics that might be considered extremely narrow in interest within the national pastime. In fact, it seems comfortable to say that if it were not for this […]
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In response to a recent entry on artist Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship, Bob Kendrick of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, wanted readers of the Bookshelf to know that the museum will display a number of the original paintings used to illustrate the book in an exhibit beginning January 26, […]
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My favorite pieces of mail, aside from the books I receive, are the catalogs announcing the books I will shortly receive. Like gardeners, I look forward to these colorful brochures that hold the promise of hours of enjoyment during the months to come. The University of Nebraska Press and its imprint, Bison Books, publish some […]
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Just in time for the holidays: Mickey Mantle: A Life Story is a 10-DVD set. The collection contains “the most complete and entertaining portrayal ever done about Mickey’s remarkable life and career. These DVDs feature rarely-seen footage and photos, as well as never-before seen footage and photos from the Mantle Family archives. This is one […]
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Let’s face it. Baseball fans are well-intentioned. We go to the ballpark, buy a program or bring our own scorebook, but often we simply lose steam during the course of the game. If you’re there with friends and family, there are countless interruptions which make the diligent among us pester our neighbor to find out […]
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From PhilliesNation.com, this announcement of The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit, written by Mitchell Nathanson, an associate professor at Villanova’s Law School.
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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
