Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Congrats to Scott P. from Rochester, winner of the RKBB Facebook friend random selection. The book this time is the paperback edition of John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden. Next up: Hit By Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball by Molly Lawless.
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Congrats to Zachary James of Searsboro, Iowa, winner of the RKBB Facebook fan drawing, Curt Smith’s new book is A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth. (Yeah, I know it’s “like,” but that just sounds stupid in context, so I’m gonna keep on going with “fan.”) The next […]
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Bill King of Baseball Reflections posted this piece about some new ideas coming out of the SABR Analytics Conference in Mesa, AZ, March 15-17. John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, will also be there. In 1985, Thorn, along with Pete Palmer, published one of the earlier books on the game’s new generation of metrics in The […]
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The 2012 SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Art Competition is looking for submissions. Winners receive a cash award, publication in the journal Black Ball and exhibition at the Baseball Heritage Museum in Cleveland. There are three categories: professional, amateur, and youth (under 16). The deadline for submission is May 7. For more information and to […]
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Broadway has its “angels,” folks who love the theater and are willing to contribute bug bucks to see their name in the program or merely for the satisfaction of knowing they’ve helped the arts. Here’s your chance (on a much more affordable scale) to celebrate that genre of ballplayers who are in a kind of […]
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Brought to you as sort of a public service announcement, because us literary fans have to support each other. For more information, contact Bobby Plapinger at R. Plapinger Baseball Books PO Box 1062 Ashland, OR 97520 541-488-1220 baseballbooks@opendoor.com * * * This is just a brief note to bring you up to date on some […]
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Want to be surrounded by baseball writers? The New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America will hold its 89th annual awards dinner on Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Hilton New York, located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas between West 53rd and 54 Streets. Stars such as Ryan Braun, Mariano Rivera, Jose […]
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To me, at least. Amazon.com has selected Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding as Best Book of the Year. Seriously? I haven’t read any of the other top nine books, but I’m sorry — and with all dues respect — I can’t believe that TAOF is the best title, out of the hundreds that have […]
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The Bookshelf was included in this article from BaseballNation on “Your Ultimate Off-Season Survival Guide.” Thanks, guys.
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The Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in Manhattan will host a panel discussion with three Major League baseball scouts— Sal Agostinelli, director of international scouting for the Philadelphia Phillies; Billy Blitzer, pro scout for the Chicago Cubs; and Joe Rigoli, pro scout for the St. Louis Cardinals — on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at . Lee Lowenfish, author of […]
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The editors of Spitball released their list of finalists for the 2011 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year: The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game by John Thorn The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball […]
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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
Bits and pieces
February 10, 2012 · 2 comments
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I have a bit of backlog I’d like to clear, so here goes. * We’ll have to agree to disagree. One card collector can’t stand the new 2012 Topps series. Another calls it the best one yet. What do you think? * LibraryJournal.com posted this piece reviewing […]
Tagged as: Casey Award, Dirk Hayhurst, Hank Greenberg, Jim Brosnan, Joe DiMaggio, Michael Lewis, The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, Year The Yankees Lost the Pennant
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