Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the category archives:
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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Because you can keep the confection on a bookshelf (unopened) and certainly the prizes, have gander at this NY Times piece on the current fate and questionable future of Cracker Jack (singular)..
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From Newsday, this review of Lew Paper’s book on Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game. Jimmy Scott, of Jimmy Scott’s High and Tight, wrote this review on Satchel, by Larry Tye. Two more sites on baseball cards: The Topps Archives (non-baseball material as well), and another devoted specifically to the 1980 Topps set. The event […]
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Author Daniel Ford previews his as-yet-unfiehsed baseball novel on his epnonymous blog, Baseball Sunday with Daniel Ford. So, some of the ballparks are going the healthy route and selling fresh fruit? What are they, my mother? A review of a book about old baseball by a young fan (Major League Baseball Players of 1916, published […]
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Hey, I missed one. So sue me. Just wanted to highlight this article by Luke winn about “The Last Iconic Baseball Card.” Care to guess who it is before you read the piece? A Hint: it cae out 20 years ago. In a similarly belated development, MLB picked Topps as its “official” card of choice. […]
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The author of Card Sharks: How Upper Deck Turned A Child’s Hobby Into A High-Stakes, Billion-Dollar Busines was interviewed by the blog Wax Heaven: Trading Cards and Pop Culture.
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The Topps company recently announced a new high-tech collectible: 3D Live baseball cards. The idea is you hold them in front of your webcam (because absolutely every collector has a webcam these days) and it renders the card as an avatar on the screen. You can rotate the card to see it from all angles, […]
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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 blog 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
* Bookshelf author interview: Josh Wilker
March 26, 2010
Josh Wilker launched his blog, CardboardGods (Motto: “Voice of the mathematically eliminated”) as a link to a simpler time, when all a boy needed to be happy was a nickle, a dime, or at most a quarter, to buy a pack of baseball cards. For a ten-year-old, these guys were, in fact, gods. All you […]
Tagged as: Baseball Cards, Cardboard Gods, Josh Wilker
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