Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will host the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Oct. 1-3. As part of the three-day event, Billy Crystal, who directed and executive produced the classic film 61*, will be on hand as the Hall of Fame celebrates his 2001 production that told the story of the 1961 […]
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if not a tiny scoreboard. Mental Floss, a bright and funny publication in which a couple of my articles have appeared (and one day again, I hope. Hint, hint, Mental Floss; I have no shame) published this brief history on the evolution of the scoreboard. The piece also links to some other cool baseball items, […]
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Umpires have beengetting a lot of bad press lately, and deservedly so. Sports pundits are calling for wider use of instant replay in an effort to make the right calls, primarily on fair and foul balls and other on-base issues. One area they pretty much agree should not be touched is balls and strikes. Sure, […]
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Unless, of course, your toddler tosses it back. From Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog: Since being featured on the front page of Yahoo! on Wednesday afternoon, the Big League Stew post containing the highlight has been one of the most clicked in this blog’s history and I don’t think it’s hard to figure […]
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Because you can keep the souvenir cups on your bookshelf. And at some of these prices, you better. Today’s Wall Street Journal ran this little item about the cost of beer at the ballpark as a factor of the team’s success. I see that several of the venues mention sell 20-21 oz. cups, which is […]
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Each year SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era. The three other finalists for the award: Rick Huhn for Eddie Collins, Tom Swift for Chief Bender’s Burden, and Michael Lynch for […]
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SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. Ritter was the author/editor of The Glory of Their Times, a seminal book of baseball oral history. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era (McFarland). The three other Finalists for the […]
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Because I keep cookbooks on the shelf, and that’s close enough for jazz… The New York Times ran two pieces today on the food fans can expect at the new area ballparks, one for the Yankees, and one for the Mets.
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Because you can put the smaller pieces of debris on a bookshelf: There have been a lot of derogatory remarks about Shea Stadium over the years — too old, too boring, too much walking, too few concessionaires, too smelly rest rooms, etc. But it was the ballpark of my youth, and as with any family, […]
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A story in today’s New York Times reveals the uniform patches that the Mets and Yankees will wear for the inaugural season at their new stadiums. Regardless of your feelings about the teams themselves, the Yankees patch is quite classy, a mix of old and new as one would expect from an organization that prides […]
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Speaking of NPR… Just happened to be flipping through the dial yesterday and came across The Brian Lehrer Show. Since it was a holiday, this was a highlights show, which included two segments on listeners’ memories of Shea and Yankee Stadiums, both of which closed with their team’s final home games in 2008.
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The Chicago Sun-Times recently offered a list of gift books, as comprised by some of its writers. Of the seven suggestions, Two baseball titles made the grade: Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos and Memorabilia, by Julia Ruth Stevens and Bill Gilbert; and Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The […]
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This review on Harvey Frommer’s paean to the House that Ruth Built comes via River Avenue Blues. Upshot: Frommer has crafted a great mix as he honors Yankee Stadium, and presenting a building that has stood the test of New York time for so many decades is no easy task.
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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
Because you could put this on your bookshelf…if your name was Steinbrenner
September 23, 2010
They probably have humongous bookshelves in their palatial estates. Wouldn’t you know, the Steinbrenners can never do anything simple. The latest deal: is the monument honoring the late King George too big? Many fans have a problem with tributes to players like Mantle and DiMaggio This big while the new one saluting GS monument is […]
Tagged as: George Steinbrenner, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Monument Park, Yankee Stadium
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