Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Some kids get their love of baseball from their father. Mine was from the old country, born in Russian, coming to the U.S. when he was 16. He never took to sports like some new arrivals do to become “more” American. My father’s main form of relaxation was drawing and he was quite good at […]
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Spitball Magazine has announced that We Are the Ship is the 2008 winner of its Casey Award as best baseball book of the year. Nelson will receive the award the 26th annual CASEY Awards Banquet on March 8, at Sawyer Point in downtown Cincinnati. In an email to the Bookshelf, Nelson wrote: I’m quite honored […]
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A while back I posted an entry about who should be credited with creating the famous MLB logo from ESPN’s Uniwatch blog. Seems the issue just won’t go away. Now we’re trying to figure out who the “model” was. Considered opinion says it’s Harmon Killebrew, but … [O]nce you start looking, it turns out the […]
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From Blogcritics Magazine, this review of Adam Beechen and Manny Bello’s new black-and-white graphic novel, Dugout, using the always amusing baseball/prison break theme {“Dug out,” get it? Har.). Upshot: Like most caper stories, Dugout is 80% build-up and 20% bang.
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Yesterday (Oct. 2), the Appleton Art Center opened “an exhibition featuring several works from its popular ‘Art of the Diamond: Baseball’ exhibit, which was originally on display in April and May as part of a series of events organized by Fox Cities arts groups under the title ‘Home Run for the Arts.’” Also in the […]
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“Oregon Nisei Baseball — The Early Years” exhibit featuring black-and-white images of Nisei teams and Northwest baseball tournaments. Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center: 121 N.W. Second Ave. (503-224-1458) Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tue-Sat, noon-3 p.m. Sun. Opening reception 1:30 p.m. Sun, Sept. 14; through Jan. 11, 2009. From the Web site: In celebration of the 10th […]
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This piece from The Saratogian on artist Brian Fox, who, despite the name, paints horses (no, he doesn’t coat them in whitewash). He is also one of MLB’s “official artists.”
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Baseball deco for kiddies.
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Artist Michael Naples hosts “A painting a day” which allows visitors to bid on his work. This one is baseball-related (what else) and would look very nice, framed, on a bookshelf. The auction is held via E-bay through Aug. 10. The bidding on the 6″x6″ item starts at $100.
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From collectorsquest.com, this small group of old baseball-related…stuff.
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In the movie Field of Dreams, the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson appears on a Midwest baseball field constructed specifically for him by farmer Ray Kinsella. “Is this heaven,” asks the bemused ballplayer, who had been banned from the game for his role in the 1919 Black Sox scandal? “No,” replies his host, “It’s Iowa.” […]
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Wilfred Santiago pays homage to his countryman Roberto Clemente in graphic novela form, due out later this year. According to the publication’s Web site, 21 is “a human drama of courage and dignity….Facing prejudice during times of change, his talent went unrecognized for most of his eighteen seasons. Clemente, however, never lost of sight of […]
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From the Litchfield County (CT) Times, this article about sports art dealer Bill Goff, whose “primary business is to publish and market, by direct mail and web site, limited-edition, signed and numbered offset lithographs of ballpark/arena/golf scenes and sports still lifes.”
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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
* What to give…
December 1, 2008
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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