Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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And who knows, sometime soon, one just might. The Beckett Blog composed this series of fake Derek Jeter cards, fantasizing about what he would look like in the uniform of all 30 teams. Some look pretty good, but the prospect of others (Jeter as a Met?) are a bit disconcerting.
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Nuns selling rare Honus Wagner card [T]he Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame… are auctioning off the card, which despite its poor condition is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000. The proceeds will go to their ministries in 35 countries around the world.
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Trying to play catch-up once again: Reviews of Michael Shapiro‘s Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself and Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, by Josh Wilker, can be found on Meals from the Marketplace. Upshots: Bottom of the Ninth — “he […]
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Received the latest (Summer 2010) issue of the BSJ. To be honest, a lot of the statistical stuff therein is a bit over my head/interest level, but there are several book reviews, so it balances out. Among them: Phil Birnbaum on The Bill James Gold Mine 2010 Lee Lowenfish on Satchel: The Life and Times […]
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While on vacation, we stopped at the Vermont Country Store in Weston. It’s a very cool place, especially of you’re a boomer. They have all manner of nostalgia for sale, including Colorforms, GI Joe, Slinky, and Spalding balls, just to name a few. For $1.50, my wife bought a pack of 1988 Topps cards, which […]
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In today’s installment, the missing words are “Baseball cards,” as discussed in this piece from the Sports Illustrated website on Josh Wilker’s book Cardboard Gods, as per Ted Anthony, who writes about American culture for the Associated Press: baseball-card blogger and memoirist Josh Wilker has come through. The unforgettable “Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told […]
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No, not the St. Louis “Redbirds,” but the little pieces of cardboard from our youth (which for some is farther in the past than others). The Bookshelf has previously posted about Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods and David Jamieson’s Mint Condition. Here’s some more food for thought. The Baseball Hall of Fame is currently featuring a […]
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The Boston Globe has been active on the baseball review front of late. Bill Nowlin, author of several titles on the Red Sox, contributed this piece on Howard Bryant’s bio of Hank Aaron for today’s edition. Yesterday, Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a Game, considered two baseball titles — Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker […]
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This article appeared in the April 15 edition of the New Jersey Jewish News. Tempered with the excitement of Opening Day, some baseball fans have to contend with the end of a tradition, even if it was only a few years old: 2010 marks the final release of the Jewish Major Leaguer card set. According […]
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by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (2003; Picador Translation 2009) I can’t even remember where I heard of this title but I’m glad I did. Ogawa tells a touching story about a Japanese housekeeper, her 10-year-old son, and her professional charge, a former mathematics professor with an unusual disability, which was the result of […]
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 16. Title Rank General The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 1 The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 2 Willie Mays: […]
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That seems to be theme in most of these Daily News “baseball cards” shots of the Mets and Yankees. In another marketing ploy, the Daily News will be publishing its baseball preview on Thursday, rather than the usual Sunday before Opening Day. I’m guessing they realize people buy the Sunday paper regardless of content, but […]
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My apologies for falling way behind. Still basking in my post-Yankee fantasy camp experience, which you will be able to read about in the pages of the New Jersey Jewish News in the next week or so, as well as Broadside Bombers next year. So without further ado: Ron Shandler, who publishes the popular Baseball […]
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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
Major recycling: Baseball Weekly
November 23, 2010 · 3 comments
::Heavy sigh:: Still hacking from spending several hours a couple of weeks ago in my attic trying to weed out some baseball material. As you can imagine, it’s very difficult. Part of it must be psychological: As long as you have “stuff,” you’ll never die. To put it another away, “I can’t die; look at […]
Tagged as: Baseball Weekly, USA TODAY
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