Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the category archives:
Had these for awhile and still working on the “documentary” about some of there many memorabilia shops in Cooperstown, where I attended the 25th Annual Symposium on Baseball & American Culture last month. (Click on the number to advance the slideshow; click on each photo to enlarge in a new window.) [SlideDeck id=’15803′ width=’100%’ height=’300px’]
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Because I find cricket so fascinating. From The Wall Street Journal‘s Daily Fix blog: The Ashes: Record-Breaking Day at the Bottom of the Order In cricket the last slot in the batting order is a little like the pitcher’s spot in National League baseball. It’s usually reserved for your weakest hitter and you’d be crazy […]
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“The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World”
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Brought to you as a public service announcement: Hall of Famer Frank Robinson; former manager Tony La Russa; former Mets Dwight Gooden, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Art Shamsky, and Barry Lyons; and MLB Network personalities Eric Byrnes and Sam Ryan will be in attendance at the MLB All-Star 5K & Fun Run benefiting Sandy Relief on […]
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Don’t you wish some of these players would take a page, so to speak, from Ted Kubiak? Kubiak, 71, spent four of his 20 years in the Cleveland Indians organization as the defensive coordinator with the minor league clubs. When he spent a few weeks in Kinston, N.C., a local sportswriter came up to him […]
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With all due respect to the author… I found an item on my Google alerts about The Diamond Deception, a self-published novel by Mike Gallagher. Rather than try to describe it, here’s the “official” notice: FBI hero Pete Dobbins, goes undercover as a major league baseball player to investigate a string of murders and gets […]
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One huge difference between pro athletes and weekend warriors is health care. Ball clubs have major money invested in these players, so it is only practical they get the best care available. On the other side of the coin, I’m still hobbled from a calf injury sustained a month ago, but I don’t have a […]
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Or, ‘What’s a ball game without a nosh?’ From this week’s “Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank” round of my favorite NPR podcast: PETER SAGAL: Cincinnati Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched the worst game of his career after blanking. FAITH SALIE: Michele? (Editor’s Note: a reference to that show’s “Not My Job” guest, sports side-line reporter Michele Tafoya) (LAUGHTER) […]
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So was the guy holding out the candy bar like it was a microphone/recording device?
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Because baseball is, in reality, just a game.
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Yesterday I was supposed to be interviewed by WFMB-Am, the ESPN affiliate sports talk radio station in Springfield , Ill. about my book. The call was scheduled at 5:05 p.m., my time. Given the horrific circumstances of the events at the Boston Marathon (haven’t looked at the tabloids yet; are any of them using the […]
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There’s a line in the new biopic, 42, in which Pee Wee Reese tells his new teammate Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to break the (modern) color line, “Maybe tomorrow we’ll all wear 42. That way they won’t tell us apart.” That tomorrow is today. Today Major League Baseball holds its annual Jackie Robinson Day. […]
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Proof that if you look hard enough, you can make a baseball connection. And he’s got a pretty good motion, too. R.I.P. to a comic legend.
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The long-time movie critic succumbed to cancer yesterday at the age of 70. He was given a “melancholy happy trails” tribute on Pardon the Interruption, in which co-host Tony Kornheiser noted that his show copied liberally from the dynamic Ebert and his co-host, Gene Siskel, employed in their TV show, At The Movies. As would […]
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Not content with destroying their previous franchise — my beloved Montreal Expos — the current management of the Miami Marlins are intent on ruining — for the second time — another team as well as crushing the souls of whatever fan base they’ve managed to muster. Now they have the nerve to sue a […]
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Got a nice writeup for 501 from Benjamin Hill at MiLB.com yesterday, which you can read here. Perhaps just as important, he sent this link to videos of several more teams doing the Harlem Shake, Gangham Minor League style. Enjoy.
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I wonder if that was an edict handed down by MLB. Submitted for your enjoyment: Cleveland Indians: A (Annotated!) Miami Marlins: B+ Arizona Diamondbacks: B Oakland A’s: B- Kansas City Royals: D
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As I might have mentioned, I served three weeks of jury duty recently. There was a lot of down time during which I sought to memorize the projected starting nine, DHs, and pitching staffs for every Major League team, as put forth by The Sporting News baseball annual. And I managed to finish with the […]
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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
