Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Want to help out a good cause with the potential to score some baseball book swag? Writers for the Red Cross holds a weekly on-line auction. This week the prize is provided by Joseph Wallace, author of Diamond Ruby: A Novel and several other non-fiction coffee table titles about the national pastime. According to Wallace, […]
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It’s Monday and that means I’ll be making my weekly appearance on the What’s On Second Internet radio program on Blogtalkradio.com. The show begins at 9 p.m. EST, and I’m usually on about 9:40. Tonight’s guest will be John Thorn, the newly-appointed official historian of Major League Baseball. Thorn, a prolific writer, has just released […]
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The winner of the 2010 CASEY Award, given to the best baseball book of the year by Spitball Magazine, is Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron. Bryant also won the award in 2002 for Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, thus becoming the first author […]
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Join me tonight at 9 p.m. EST when I make my weekly appearance on the What’s On Second Internet radio program. (Actually, I’ll be on closer to 9:40.) This week we’ll be discussing annual baseball magazines and whether they’ve gone the way of the dodo.
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Brought to you as a public service announcement. “Major League Baseball is looking for someone to watch games and blog.” Details: I’d try for this myself, but there’s no indication as to payment. Work fast; you never know when they’ll rescind the offer.
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When I first saw the headline in Saturday’s NY Times, I thought the writer, David Waldstein, was speaking metaphorically. Turns out Dickey — the surprise pitching star for the Mets in an otherwise dismal 2010 — actually is writing a book, with the help of Wayne Coffey of the NY Daily News. From the Times‘ […]
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Following an earlier post about creating a baseball room, I heard from Dave Kaplan, executive director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, who wants to help you get started on the project. The Museum, located on the campus of Montclair State University in Little Falls, NJ, is currently under renovation and is offering […]
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Because you can keep a TV on your bookshelf: Who Do You Think You Are? : Tim McGraw NEW TV-PG NBC, 8 p.m. EST Tim McGraw researches his father’s past and discovers an industrious ancestor. The country singer/actor was 11 years old when he discovered that popular relief pitcher Tug McGraw was his father.
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Hal Richman didn’t waste any time when I asked him if he could have envisioned celebrating the 50th anniversary of his iconic baseball game, Strat-O-Matic. “Absolutely not,” he said, after some initial laughter over the absurdity of the situation. Hundreds of the game’s fans from across the country will participate in tomorrow’s “2011 Strat-O Opening […]
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Because you can keep a TV on your bookshelf: Hot in Cleveland Episode: Sisterhood of the Traveling SPANX (NEW) Joy ends up with a younger man; Melanie tries to catch the eye of a doctor; Victoria gets in cat fight with Melanie Griffith; Elka’s enhancement idea for Grady Sizemore. 10:00 P.M. on TVLAND
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If you’re not otherwise busy watching Gossip Girls or some such nonsense, I will be guesting on What’s On Second: The Seamhead.com Radio Hour (not to be confused with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour… or is it? Hmmm.) Anyway, the festivities begin at 9 p.m. and I’m slated to go on at 9:15 p.m. EST […]
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By the way, it’s still winter so why aren’t we hearing snow-themed songs anymore? “Winter Wonderland” and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” among others, are not “holiday” songs, per se, so they’d still be valid. Just sayin’. Thought I saw my first “annual” at the bookstore last week, but it was a fantasy publication, so it […]
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Haven’t done one of these in awhile, so here goes. MLB.com posted this story about Andrew Zimablist, who published Circling the Bases: Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry last October. WithLeather blogs about Jose Canseco’s upcoming (and unpromising?) appearance on he new season of Celebrity Apprentice. Speaking of television, will baseball […]
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Onion SportsDome Although I still miss Pilot episode, Part one Pilot episode, Part two Pilot episode, Part three
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the scratch to attend the annual dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.The event will be held Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Hilton New York. Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., with the dinner slated to get underway at 7 p.m. Tickets are $225 each and can be purchased through […]
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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
Shameless self-promotion
February 21, 2011
Tonight I’ll be making my regular guest appearance on What’s On Second on Blogtalk radio at 9 EST. I’ll be on around 9:40 to discuss spring training books.
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