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The Bookshelf Podcast: Will Leitch, Part Three
July 30, 2010
The Bookshelf Podcast: Will Leitch, Part Two
July 30, 2010
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The Bookshelf Podcast: At long last Leitch
July 30, 2010
The first few times I encountered Will Leitch’s work, I was less than impressed. I’m old-school enough to not want to know that my favorite players (not that I have any at this point) are hanging out at bars, doing drugs, treating women badly, etc., which is what Deadspin — which he founded — seemed […]
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Five Qs for Peter Golenbock
July 19, 2010
Apropos of my recent review of 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel, author Peter Golenbock was kind enough to answer a few questions –on his birthday, no less — about the controversial project. * * * Bookshelf: After all those non-fiction projects, what was it that prompted to to venture into a different genre? PG: I […]
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Everybody is a star: Q&A with author Lew Freedman
July 12, 2010
Well, perhaps not everybody… With apologies to Sly and the Family Stone. In honor of the annual contest — held this year on July 13 in Anaheim — I run this little Q&A with Lew Freedman, author of The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball’s First All-star Game, 1933, (McFarland). * * […]
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Father and child reunion
July 9, 2010
With apologies to Paul Simon. These came too late for Father’s Day, but I’ve noticed a lot of “father-son” themes lately. Currently reading Will Leitch’s Are We Winning: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, which mixes baseball and familial observations. Look for a podcast featuring an interview with Leitch late next […]
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The Bookshelf Podcast: Doug Glanville
July 8, 2010
A bit overdue, but here’s my conversation with Doug Glanville, author of The Game From Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View. During the course of the chat, Glanville shares his thoughts on the joys and difficulties of putting the book together, what he hopes to accomplish with it, and the possibility of more writing […]
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The Bookshelf Podcast, June 23 — Mike Cameron
June 23, 2010
Part II, Again, sorry for the mistake in the publisher’s name. Again, the correct name is Sporting Chance Press. http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Pod2BCameron062310.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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The Bookshelf Podcast, June 23 — Andy Wasif
June 23, 2010
Had so much fun the first time, I thought I’d try to make it a regular feature. So for this week’s RKBB podcast, I spoke with Andy Wasif, author of Red Sox Fans are From Mars, Yankee Fans Are from Uranus, and Mike Cameron, who published Private Bonehead, Public Hero: The Real Legacy of Fred […]
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And now for something completely different: Part 1
June 13, 2010
Welcome to Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf, the podcast! Bear with us; this is a work in progress. We’ll get it right as time goes by. In the first installment, we chat with Bill Madden, veteran NY Daily News sportswriter and columnist, about his NY Times‘ bestseller, Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball. You can read […]
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And now for something completely different: Part 2
June 11, 2010
Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf: The Podcast! In the second part of the podcast, we chat with Jeff Gillenkirk, author of Home, Away, which follows a review of the book. http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/GillenPodcast061210.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Now hear this: Jason Turbow
May 23, 2010
Alex Rodriguez runs across the pitchers mound, p.o.-ing Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden. A Phillies coach is accused of using binoculars to steal signs. You can’t buy this kind of publicity, but Jason Turbow, author of The Baseball Codes, will ceratinly take it, with thanks. It’s helped garner a few more talk show appearances, including […]
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Now hear this: Dan Epstein
May 23, 2010
The author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s spent a few groovy moments talking shop with the Bookshelf (and I don’t take shop from just anybody). Hear it here: Part one: [audio:http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DanEpstein1.mp3|titles=DanEpstein1] Part two: [audio:http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DanEpstein2.mp3|titles=DanEpstein2] http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DanEpstein1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts […]
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Now hear this: Robert Schnakenburg
May 9, 2010
The author of The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia spent a few moments with the Bookshelf to discuss some of his favorite pop-culturish baseball people, places, and things. Hear it here: [audio:http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/SchnakenburgDone.mp3|titles=SchnakenburgDone] http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/SchnakenburgDone.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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* Q&A with Sean Forman
May 3, 2010 · 1 comment
Readers of The New York Times have noticed a shift in how the publication offers its baseball coverage these days. Gone (or rapidly going) are the regular columns of writers like Red Smith, George Anderson, George Vecsey, and Murray Chass. More often we have the succinct pieces and more numbers-oriented issues, such as Keeping Score, […]
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* Now hear this: Flo Thomasian Snyder
April 30, 2010
This charming young lady came out with Lady in the Locker Room: Madcap Memoirs of the Early LA Dodgers last year. It’s one of the best self-published books I’ve come across in a long time. Part family photo album — and as the first person put on the team payroll after they relocated from Brooklyn […]
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* Now hear this: Danny Peary
April 18, 2010 · 1 comment
When I spoke with Danny Peary (that’s pronounced “PERRY,” as in Gaylord) recently about his new biography, Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero, I expressed surprise over the timing of his book, co-written with Tom Clavin. Then he made me feel ashamed I didn’t remember that 2010 is the 50th anniversary of Maris’ joining the Yankees. […]
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* Now hear this: Dave Jamieson
April 18, 2010
Maybe I’m just more sensitive to it, but there seem to be an awful lot of books this year catering to the boomers among is. There are plenty of biographies from higher-end publishers on all-time favorites such as Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Maris, Rizzuto, Kaline, and Musial, not to mention those that come from vanity presses […]
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* RK ‘Hyphenate’ Interview: Logan and Noah Miller
April 13, 2010
I don’t know how else to describe these twin brothers. They’re independent filmmakers, actors, and authors of Either You’re In or You’re In the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father, which chronicles their efforts to make their cinematic tribute, Touching Home. The Millers have a […]
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* Now hear this: Sean Manning
April 1, 2010 · 1 comment
Paraphrasing a great line from a TV show from long ago (I know forget which one, might have been M*A*S*H), i I were stranded on a dessert island and could only have one book, it would be the dictionary, because it has all the other books in it. That’s kind of the way I feel […]
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