Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Graig Kreindler got a nice write-up in Hyland Magazine which was, according to the publisher, “created strictly for subscription on the iPad,” (booo). If you have an iPad, God bless. If not, and you’re on Facebook, you can read the individual panels here.
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The painter of historical baseball people and events was the subject of this featurette on the YES Network. And here’s an additional video from about a year ago.
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A couple of days ago I posted an entry about some unique baseball books. Since then I’ve exchanged a few e-mails with Erin Zamrzla, creator of these unique mini-notebooks. I asked how she chose the three relatively obscure players — Sibby Sisti, Andy Seminick, and Don Kolloway — for her project. “I ended up using […]
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The first lady of the New York Mets passed away Jan. 25 at the age of 94. I had written about Jarvis a couple of years ago, once when she was taken ill and when she was honored at a Jazz concert.
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Congratulations to the cast and crew of Signs of the Time, winner of the Award for Baseball Excellence at the 2009 Baseball Film Festival, held at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. The award, “given to the film that excels in one or all of the following categories: research, historical context, appreciation of the […]
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Thanks to the NY Times’ Freakonomics blog, I came across FlipFlopFlyball, an off-shoot of flipflopflyin.com, which offers some unusual charts regarding the national pastime. In one, we see just how many Native Americans actually live in Cleveland (which gave me a few ideas for future charts)*, an unusual representation of when teams broke the color line, […]
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Kudos to Mr. Fox. The artist received the assignment of a lifetime. His work has been selected by Topps as a special insert into their 2009 set. But not as a mere insert. Distributed among the thousands of packs are “redemption cards” which can be exchanged for one of 50 individually drawn card-size sketches. So […]
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Some kids get their love of baseball from their father. Mine was from the old country, born in Russian, coming to the U.S. when he was 16. He never took to sports like some new arrivals do to become “more” American. My father’s main form of relaxation was drawing and he was quite good at […]
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I’m a big fan of audiobooks. It fills in the empty spaces during the commute and increases the number of books I can get to. The narrator of the individual pieces can make or break the experience. Some are lyrical and others sound almost computer-generated. You can almost hear when they know their subject, that […]
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The Sport Artwork Forum ran this interview with baseball artist Dick Perez, whose style would be instantly recognizable to a certain segment of baseball card (“art to go”?) collectors. The forum ran a similar Q&A with John Hanley. Several years ago, when I was researching the Montreal Expos, I spoke with Andres Gallaraga. It was […]
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This piece from The Saratogian on artist Brian Fox, who, despite the name, paints horses (no, he doesn’t coat them in whitewash). He is also one of MLB’s “official artists.”
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On the June 21 edition of Only a Game, Bill Littlefield offered this interview with John Feinstein, author of Living on the Black. (Sorry, but you have to listen to the preceding stories before you get to the Feinstein segment.) Read an excerpt from Living on the Black. The Leonard Lopate Show of June 24 […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
August 30, 2012
Time for the occasional declutter of the accumulated links and stories, so here goes. “Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd has won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, which honors a nonfiction book on the subject of sports.” More here. From the Yogi Berra Museum: Former Yankee star second baseman Bobby Richardson, a cornerstone […]
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