Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Beckett offers a very straightforward product. Aside from the team-by-team analysis, the only additional articles deal with the top ten free agent signings (Mark Teixeira leads the list) and ten worst off-season moves, which includes bad trades and poor acquisitions (Nick Swisher’s departure from the White Sox heads this one). There’s also a small 2008 […]
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(With apologies to Cole Porter.) Recently discovered this very well-produced and hilarious webisode series about the Topps baseball card company. Rather than go into great detail, I’ll let you discover it via BackonTopps.com. It’s a cross between Dallas and Curb Your Enthusiasm. You can also download the series through iTunes.
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I had this little comic book, an insert that came in packs of 1970 Topps cards. I also had coins, deckle-edged cards, miniposter, “playing” cards, all premiums in sets for others years. “Had” is the operative word. Can’t even blame my mother for tossing them away. This was my fault. had all the extras in […]
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I can just picture it now: Mother: Sonny, what did you do with that old shoe box? Son: What old shoe box? Mother: The one with the old baseball cards in in. Sonny: Oh, that? I threw that out? Mother: You what?? How could you do that? That was my stuff! Sonny: Now, Mom, don’t […]
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A new twist on an old classic.
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Why were those naughty words written on the knob of Billy Ripken’s bat in his 1989 Fleer card? More on the card here, from CNBC.
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With these tough economic times, I wonder if there’s been a run of card collectors trying to unload their little pieces of cardboard. For those of you interested, here’s a piece describing the appraisal process and another on the determination of “book value.”
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If you can’t keep track of this, you don’t deserve to have ’em…
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t […]
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To borrow a phrase from the late Phil Rizzuto. From AmericanChronicle.com: …the Upper Deck Company has released the largest baseball trading card set ever assembled in tribute to the world-renowned sports shrine. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” (YSL) collection is a 6,661-card compilation chronicling every single New York Yankees home game ever played at the current […]
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As a kid I collected baseball cards. As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I never thought of them as investments so I subjected them to all sorts of indignities: writing on them, taping over the team names when the player was traded, pasting them to oaktag for school projects (I could have retired […]
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Per a blog about baseball cards.
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Politicians will say anything for your support. Look at Hillary Clinton, claiming to be a lifelong fan of several franchises, including the Cubs and the Yankees. Topps commemorates former presidential hopeful — and devout Yankee fan — Rudy Giuliani with a “faux card,” according to this item posted Feb. 5 by Sports Illustrated. On the […]
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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
