Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Been remiss about this, but Paul Lempa, one of my favorite illustrators, has an exhibition of his work (“Idols of Sports: The Art of Paul Lempa”) on display at Gallery 1200, 1200 Washington St., Hoboken NJ, through July 4. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday, 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 9 p.m.; and […]
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As in Cooperstown, where I attended the 25th Baseball Symposium, May 29-31. I hadn’t been to one of those things in almost 20 years and it’s grown substantially. My last time there were about 50 hard-core baseball scholars; this time it was (guessing here) closer to 150. The topics were quite eclectic and, to […]
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Well, one way is to sign up for the annual Cooperstown Baseball Symposium, which is where I’ll be May 29-31. Veteran sportswriter, author, and commentator Frank Deford is the keynote speaker for this 25th anniversary edition. You can look at the whole program here. As you will see, it’s very eclectic (and that I serve […]
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The Society for American Baseball Research holds an annual “day” on which chapters around the world hold regional meetings to discuss all things national pastime. This year’s day was held on Jan. 26, with many writers authors are on hand to discuss their work, including Marty Appel, Dr. Stanley Teitelbaum, and ESPN’s T.J. Quinn, who […]
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Curt Smith and Scott Pitoniak will launch a new weekly baseball radio show — A Talk in the Park — on WYSL 92.1 FM and 1040 AM, on Saturday, Jan. 12, at noon, The 60-minute series will be available outside of Western New York via the Internet on wysl1040.com. Pitoniak, left, recipient of more than […]
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Last Saturday, I had the honor of attending the book launch/birthday party for Greg Prince, author of the The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973): 50 Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500 Amazin’ Wins (Volume 1). There will eventually be three additional volumes. Several of Prince’s friends were on hand at Foley’s, […]
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If you happen to be in Mill Valley, CA, tomorrow evening you might want to check this out: former major leaguers Bip Roberts and Shooty Babitt (sounds like a couple of Saturday morning cartoon characters, don’t they?) will be at the 142 Throckmorton (another cartoon character) Theater to discuss — what else– baseball.
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Gelf’s Varsity Letters, New York’s sports reading series, returns on Thursday, Oct. 4, with a night devoted to players who won’t make it to Cooperstown unless they buy a bus ticket. They get their due in the new digital collection of essays, The Hall of Nearly Great. And they’ll get their due at Varsity Letters, featuring editor Marc Normandin, who also […]
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Two classic American pastimes come together Friday, Sept. 28, as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum presents the Seventh Annual Baseball Film Festival with opening ceremonies in Cooperstown. The festival continues on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29-30. The first-pitch event will feature a special screening of Knuckleball at 7 p.m. Friday in the […]
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The Chicago Baseball Museum is hosting a symposium on “One Family, Two Teams: The Impact of the Veecks on Chicago Baseball.” The program begins at 5:30 p.m., Chicago time. The list of speakers includes: Paul Dickson, author of Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick Dr. Timuel Black, Chicago historian Ron Rapoport, former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Roland […]
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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
