Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Congratulations to Nathan Cordery of Stoney Creek, Ontario, this month’s winner of the Bookshelf Facebook prize: John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. The next book prize will be Neil Lanctot’s Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella. In addition, as a special “season opener” bonus, another […]
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The winner of the 2010 CASEY Award, given to the best baseball book of the year by Spitball Magazine, is Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron. Bryant also won the award in 2002 for Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, thus becoming the first author […]
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Congratulations to Mark Stratton of Columbia, MO, winner of the February Facebook fan drawing of Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. The March prize will be Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn, recently appointed as official baseball historian by Major League Baseball. Tell your friends!
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Save the Date — Poet Ernest L. Thayer, whose signature piece, Casey at the Bat, has been recited for more than 100 years, will be recognized with a plaque affixed to the stoop of his former home in Lawrence, MA in a ceremony on March 19. From the story: Mark Schorr, executive director of the […]
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Congrats to Mark Armour, winner of the January “Facebook Friend” book, Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. Armour is a baseball writer in his own right, Armour is author of Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball and Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way. The February book will be The Empire Strikes Out: […]
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The San Francisco Giants are paying homage to their ancestry by bringing the World Series trophy to New York for a tour.
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Congrats to Max Weder, winner of the December Bookshelf prize, Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn. By the way, Weder ‘s wife, Jennifer Ettinger, does some lovely baseball art. Visit the Flickr page here and her website here.
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the scratch to attend the annual dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.The event will be held Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Hilton New York. Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., with the dinner slated to get underway at 7 p.m. Tickets are $225 each and can be purchased through […]
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Congrats to Howard Cole, winner of the November Bookshelf giveaway of Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James S. Hirsch. Mays was recently named one of the years notable non-fiction titles by The New York Times. You can listen to my interview with Hirch here. December’s book is Fifth-Nine in ’84, by Edward Achron. […]
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Bill Conlin was just named recipient for the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, given by the Baseball Hall of Fame for “meritorious contributions to baseball writing.” The long-time beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News published Batting Cleanup Bill Conlin, a collection of his columns, in 1997 and edited The Rutledge Book of Baseball in 1981. […]
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, […]
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Congrats to Tim Sackett, winner of the October Bookshelf Give-Away: Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye. The book was named winner of the two top baseball literary awards: The Seymour Medal from the Society for American baseball Research, and Spitball Magazine‘s Casey Award. The November book will be another […]
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At least when it comes to Derek Jeter winning the AL shortstop trophy. Not that I’m a Yankees fan, but stop picking on the guy. There have been previous examples of undeserving players receiving awards. Raphael Palmiero won the first-base GG in 1999 despite playing just 28 games there that season. Back in the mid-90s, […]
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The New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced its 2010 awards. Among the recipients: Retiring managers Joe Torre, Lou Piniella, and Bobby Cox will be given the Willie, Mickey and the Duke Award Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton will receive the Sid Mercer-Dick Young Player of the Year Award Yankees pitcher Phil […]
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The MLB Network will broadcast Thursday’s Silver Slugger Awards, given to the best offensive player at each position. Why not, they have to do something to fill the time between now and spring training. I would love a marathon movie schedule once a week, bringing back all those movies that don’t get played ad nauseum, […]
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As previously mentioned on more than one occasion, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on a better […]
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As mentioned last week, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on a better designation) take a wider […]
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As mentioned earlier this week, I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance where I serve as president of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance are team-centric, this “miscellaneous” merry band of men and women (we’re working on a better designation) takes a […]
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Image via Wikipedia I belong to the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and at this time of the year we’re putting together our post-season awards. It’s my honor to be president (for lack of a better title) of the category of the BBA that defies definition. While most of the 230 or so blogs in the Alliance […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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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February 26, 2011
I don’t know, what name would you suggest for an award to honor the best baseball performances? At Oscar time, Jim Caple of ESPN’s Page 2 offers his take on “Academy Awards for Baseball Movies” (he dubbed his awards the “Oscar Madisons”). No real surprises here, although I would have selected Costner over Matthau, Davis […]
Tagged as: Bang the Drum Slowly, baseball movies, Jim Caple, TEGWAR
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