Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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For a limited time, you can get a three-month subscription to Audible.com’s “gold plan” for $5.95, plus tax. Sine you get one book month under this plan, that works out to about $2 per title for some great “readening” (reading + listening). Here’s a link to the roughly 200 baseball titles currently available on the […]
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I’ll be writing a deeper compare/contrast entry about the baseball previews for Sports Illustrated vs. ESPN The Magazine when the former comes out (received the latter earlier this week), but in the meantime… The ESPN publication produces a podcast in which an editor and writer chat a story in a given edition. In the current […]
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Over the years, I’ve expressed disappointment in the changing times, when magazines about the fantasy baseball outnumber those about the “regular” game. Fantasy Sports is a multi-billion dollar business. With so much at stake, there have to be rules and governing bodies, otherwise there’s chaos. From time to time, I try to get with the […]
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It took me a long time to get through Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game. Not because it was boring, heaven forbid, but because it made me stop and think so much. Some might think too much time and emotion are spent dissecting sports — to much romanticism, too much philosophy, […]
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Steve Rushin was a guest on Milwaukee’s WUWM to discuss his new book, The 34-Ton Bat: The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobble Heads, Cracker Jacks, Jock Straps, Eye Black, and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects. You can read about and listen to his appearance here. Missed this one from Nov. 29: On […]
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I’m reading The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams for an upcoming review on Bookreporter.com. When I received the galleys, my first thought was similar to Rob Neyer’s, who noted in this post, “Hey, there’s another book about Ted Williams.” (Excerpt here. By the way, although I understand the title, it’s too similar to […]
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The entry on Christy Mathewson’s Pitching in a Pinch was quite popular so I thought I’d add some more info as provided by Mark Aubrey. You can read it online or download a copy in several formats (including for the Kindle) from Archive.org. Those interesting in hearing the book have a couple of options. You […]
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Ben McGrath and Roger Angell were guests on a recent New Yorker Out Loud podcast talking about, what else, baseball. The impetus of the discussion was McGrath’s May 6 profile, “Oddball: Is R.A. Dickey too good to be true?” Towards the end of the podcast, they are asked by host Amy Davidson (whose vocal mannerisms […]
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Couldn’t go without posting something on 12/12/12. Haven’t done one of thee in awhile, but I was reminded about the thrill of audio books from a Facebook post about The Glory of Their Times. While the print publication is a classic, the audio version might be even more illuminating, since you’re hearing from some of […]
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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
