Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, December 4. Title Rank General Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (565) 1 The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (731) 2 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of […]
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Very cool animation. Form VeryShortList.com: There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about baseball and the use of performance-enhancing drugs, but consider this: In 1970, one major leaguer threw a no-hitter while high on acid and Benzedrine. Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No is the hilarious animated short that tells this truly incredible tale. Featuring narration […]
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This afternoon, the New York Mets signed Chris Coste, author of Hey…I’m just the catcher: An inside look at a Northern League season from behind the plate and The 33-Year-Old Rookie: My 13-Year Journey from the Minor Leagues to the World Series. A popular player with the fans, Coste, now 36, spent 3 1/2 years […]
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Time to play major catch-up, so we’ll begin with this piece from the NY Post on Darryl Strawberry that was published during the World Series (I told you I was backed-up). In his Oct. 17 column, Kevin Kernan writes His book “Straw: Finding My Way” has sold 60,000 copies and has landed him on the […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6. Title Rank General The Bill James Handbook 2010 (Ranks 613 in books) 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski (709) 2 Moneyball: The […]
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Spitball Magazine release its list of nominees for its Casey Book Award, given annual for the publication’s take on the best baseball book of the year. The 2009 roster includes: As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 30. Title Rank General Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 23. Title Rank General Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 1 Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 16. Title Rank General Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 2. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski 1 Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, September 25. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 2 Game […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Saturday, September 19. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, Posnanski 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Games, Lewis 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, September 11. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, Posnanski 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Games, Lewis 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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Alan Gratz’s Brooklyn Nine, the story of a young Jewish boy’s love for baseball in the early 20th century, is featured on the cover of the September issue of Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association. The issue highlights a sports theme and includes a number “top 10” choices in several categories, such as […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 21. Title Rank General Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 3 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, […]
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Use PED, of course. That’s one of the topics of Murray Chass’s Aug. 16 column, in he he ponders the advisability of a Mike Piazza auto-bio. I quote, at length: Several months ago I heard that Piazza may be doing a book. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, I was told, had signed a contract for […]
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As in Fritz Peterson, the former pitcher for the New York Yankees who caused a major stir back in 1973 when he and teammate Mike Kekich swapped families. Peterson, who finished an 11-year career with a record of 133-131 (including a 20-win season in 1970), has published his story in Mickey Mantle is Going to […]
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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 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
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October 9, 2009
This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 9. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski 1 Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s […]
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