Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
I’m surprised Peter Golenbock’s ribald tale of Mickey Mantle hasn’t hit the remaindered bin yet. Lasorda’s I Live for This got the treatment just a few months after it published. Anyway, here an excerpt from the audio book as read by Alan Smithee.
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Today’s Publisher’s Weekly ran this starred review of Feinstein’s latest: Though the season-long profile—in which a sportswriter follows a player, team or coach through a single season—grows increasingly familiar, this entry from Feinstein, one of the genre’s pioneers (Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today’s NFL;The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and […]
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Brian Lehrer discusses The Zen of Bobby V with documentary filmmaker Andrew Jenks. Meanwhile, on Soundcheck, Tim Wiles, co-author of Baseball’s Greats Hit, discusses Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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Recent baseball segments on NPR programs include: A Man and His Mitt: A love Story, All Things Considered, March 28. The page includes the essay, which appears in the new anthology Anatomy of Baseball Also on March 28, The Leonard Lopate Show asked the question “Are Baseball Players Worth Their Salaries?“ League Catches Fans Using […]
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So where’s this merger of XM and Sirius I keep hearing about? When my wife leased her car, it came with a trial subscription to Sirius, which, of course, is the satellite radio station that does not carry the baseball channel. Nevertheless, I found this entertaining series of Baseball Confidential on iTunes and highly recommend […]
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In preparation for the April 21 PBS American Experience program on the late Latino superstar, here’s a New York Times’ review by George F. Will of David Maraniss’s 2006 biography. For a sample for the audio book, listen here:
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And a bonus:
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Forget the peanuts and popcorn. One of the nice things about the new season is the chance to read another New Yorker essay by Roger Angell. You can also listen to his comment here:
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Dan Gordon, editor of Your Brain on Cubs, a collection of essays about what being a fan does to your head, is the subject of this podcast interview that appears on ScientificAmerican.com.
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I was listening to my podcast of ESPN’s Baseball Today and though I heard the word “great” mentioned several times in proximity. So I replayed Peter Pascarelli’s show of March 24 and these are the findings. “Great” appears once in the introduction montage of clips from interviews. Pascarelli uses the word 5 times in the […]
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According to an item in Publisher’s Weekly, Audible has been purchased by Amazon. Lots of good baseball books available there, so pay the site a visit. Amazon’s promise to complete the purchase of Audible as soon as possible following the completion of its tender offer last week turned out to be a couple of days. […]
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in 1933, Rogers Hornsby returns to the Cardinals as a player after a six year absence (thanks to NationalPastime.com). Hornsby was not one of your happy, shining people. His reputation as a misanthrope preceded him, yet he was able to find a job because he was such an astute baseball ma who batted over .400 […]
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From YouTube, clips from Lawrence Ritter’s interviews with “Wahoo” Sam Crawford, Hans Lobert, and Jimmy Austin from his 1966 classic The Glory of Their Times. The video also features the voices of Ty Cobb and Cy Young.
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An interview by GOTT author Lawrence Ritter with Fred Snodgrass, presented in a slide show backed nicely with Scott Joplin music.
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A Woman’s Guide to Baseball, by Paula Duffy (unabridged) Pardon me if the Publisher’s summary below seems a bit…antiquated. Aside from the fact that it seems to be written by someone who swallowed a book of baseball cliches. Is the author trying to say that women are too silly to learn the sport for their […]
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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 blog 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
