Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
With apologies to Franklin Pierce Adams: These are the saddest words Mets fans could hear: “Invested with Madoff — we’re broke.” Try to deny, but the answer’s quite clear. “Invested with Madoff — we’re broke.” Major League Baseball lent millions in cash. More dough? “You kidding? That’s it from our stash.” The new baseball season […]
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Save the Date — Poet Ernest L. Thayer, whose signature piece, Casey at the Bat, has been recited for more than 100 years, will be recognized with a plaque affixed to the stoop of his former home in Lawrence, MA in a ceremony on March 19. From the story: Mark Schorr, executive director of the […]
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This one is a bit more literary than most, since Dan Quisenberry was a published poet. On Days Like This: Poems was published in 1998, the year he passed away. This sample of his work is even sadder because of his untimely death. BASEBALL CARDS that first baseball card I saw myself in a triage […]
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Very small pictures. Records major and minor. DL data, too. (Most lines are either “filed for free agency” or “on disabled list…”) Jeter gets a page (post-season states included); Ben Zobrist comes last. Pitchers and batters — position segregation — split the book in two. Nowhere else can one find such great information, so thank […]
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The host of A Prairie Home Companion is recovering from a minor stroke suffered this past weekend. (Of course “minor” is when it happens to someone else.) Keillor wrote one of the more amusing “Casey at the Bat” parodies.
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Thanks to Gabriel Schechter, author of This Bad Day in Yankees History, who delivered the following poem at the recent Cooperstown Symposium. Baseball’s Glad Lexicon These are the gladdest of possible words: Dickson has done it again. Trio of volumes each jam-packed with gems From “A-ball” to “lulu” to “zurdo.” Re-shaping his lexicon into the […]
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WickedLocal.com, a New England outfit, ran this piece on Ernest Lawrence Thayer, creator of the classic “Casey at the Bat,” which has spaened dozens of editions and collections of parodies. This one isn’t read very well, but the video is kind of cool.
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the day I turn to poetry. At least as it pertains to baseball. Although I write the weekly “Torah Haiku” for the NJ Jewish News, I generally don’t like the genre. Actually it’s not so much that I don’t like it as I don’t get it. Like wine. I probably wouldn’t be able to tell […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
