Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
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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Congrats to Bonnie Bernstein of South Salem, NY, winner of the monthly Facebook Friend Bookshelf giveaway, Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball, by Saul Wisnia.
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I was very touched to receive some e-mail asking about the blog, since I haven’t been posting in quite awhile. I have a good excuse: I finally shipped off my manuscript to the publisher on Friday. It had been an all-consuming project that even required a stretch of 36 consecutive hours at the computer to […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when, for the sixth consecutive year, it hosts the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Fourteen films, with themes ranging from Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson to the 2003 National League Championship Series, will be screened […]
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After all, we are the audience, the “consumers” of the “product” so to speak. From the Baseball Hall of Fame: * * * Thousands of baseball fans have already used Facebook to stay connected to their heroes at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Once again this year, baseball fans can nominate their […]
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From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Baseball and the movies grew up together in America, becoming a part of the fabric of the nation that made both famous. Their shared history is on display every day at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum through the Baseball At The Movies exhibit. And the newest […]
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Congrats to Andrew Milner, this month’s winner of the Facebook friend giveaway: Baseball Is . . .: Defining the National Pastime, edited by Paul Dickson.
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Remember how when you were a kid in school you didn’t like to talk about your tests right after you took them because you were afraid you’d jinx it? Well, that’s the way I felt about this bit of news. But now that it’s official… I have just signed a contract for my first book. […]
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Just a reminder to those of you in the NY Metro area. Tune in to WNET/Channel 13 tonight at 8 p.m. for the documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. I’ll be on at some point during a pledge break (unless they mercilessly left me on the editing floor).
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Good news for researchers: Baseball Prospectus will make all materials older than one year available to the public. For free! “It’s our way of saying thank you to the Internet for making our work possible over the years,” said Dave Pease, a partner at Baseball Prospectus in a statement. Very cool. One of the departments […]
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Due to my softball team’s rainout, I’ll be back to my book discussion duties on the What’s On Second Internet radio program tonight at 9:45 p.m. EST. Seriously, this is the fifth rainout this year. At this rate, we’ll be playing into football season.
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The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, which recognizes outstanding baseball research in areas other than history and biography, has been awarded for the following books published in 2010: Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson, by Timothy M. Gay (Simon & Schuster) Evaluating Baseball’s Managers: A History and […]
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Congratulations to Nathan Cordery of Stoney Creek, Ontario, this month’s winner of the Bookshelf Facebook prize: John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. The next book prize will be Neil Lanctot’s Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella. In addition, as a special “season opener” bonus, another […]
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Just wanted to let y’all know I’ll be back on the Internet radio show tonight. To mark the new season, I’ll be discussing Thomas Boswell’s Why Time Begins on Opening Day and similar collections of columns by the likes of Roger Angell, Shirley Povich, and Ira Berkow, among others. Show starts at 9 p.m. EST […]
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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
