Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
“The Kid” is not doing so well these days. The NY Times‘ Richard Sandomir wrote about Carter’s condition a couple of days ago, focusing on Carter’s daughter, Kimmy Bloemers, and her efforts to keep fans up-to-date through a blog, which appears to be invitation only to view. The article refers to this 7-Up commercial, which […]
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I was over at the local Barnes and Noble and my eyes fell on The Obits: The New York Times Annual 2012. Being the morbid and curious fellow I am, I flipped through the book (the title is a bit odd, since obviously none of the obits are actually from 2012; they actually span Aug. […]
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Would be kind of neat to try with baseball books.
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This comes from Bobby Plapinger, proprietor of R. Plapinger Baseball Books, one of the best places to find those hard-to-acquire titles and collectibles, in memory of Goodwin Goldfaden, one of the “pioneers” of the baseball books and collectible world. Anyone who’s ever bought & certainly anyone who’s ever sold baseball books or publications or related material […]
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This one from MLB.com, which goes to show how respected he was in baseball circles.
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Just a thought. I’m listening to the audio version of George Vecsey’s Stan Musial: An American Life, narrated by Scott Brick. It brought something to mind. As every American — baseball fan or not — may know, Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in the major Leagues (at least in the […]
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You won’t find his name among the players, coaches, managers, umpires, etc. on Baseball-Reference, but Greg was nevertheless an influential source, at least to me when it came to baseball books. Greg passed away Dec. 28. He was just 44 and had been in poor health for quite awhile. There aren’t a lot of entries […]
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Just received a Kindle Fire for Hanukka (Thanks, sweetie!). While it’s great fun (I can play Soduko to my heart’s content and not worry about killing trees), there are a few issues I have to resolve. Like any new toy, the first inclination is to play with it endlessly, seeing what it can do, all […]
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The Negro League star known as the Black Babe Ruth was born this date 100 years ago. Books on Gibson include: Josh Gibson: Ther Power and the Darkness, by Mark Ribowsky (author of a new bio on Howard Cosell) Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues, by William Brashler, who also wrote the novel […]
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A few weeks back I posted an entry about Diane Firstman’s imaginative baseball rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas on her Value Over Replacement Grit blog. Well, she’s at it again, this time deconstructing the classic poem “Casey at the Bat” to see how many times the scenario — home team down 4-2 with […]
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So my internet service is provided by Comcast/xfinity. Whenever I sign in to check my email, the opening page contains dozens of headlines which are turning more and more into the on-line equivalent of supermarket tabloids. They tease with provocative come-ons in a desire to get the browser to click the link for stories that […]
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It’s not that I wish this situation would just go away; I just wish it would be resolved more quickly than it seems it will be. MLB won’t be meeting on this until the middle of January. In the immediate meantime, we’ll have to hear pundits weighing in how what a shame it is that […]
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Yeah, I know. It’s not exactly an original opening, but the sentiment is apt so… Is there any way to put a good spin on the news that Braun, the first Jewish MVP in almost 50 years, rested positive for a substance banned by Major league Baseball? There are several factors which conflict me, not […]
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From MLB/SBNation.
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My wife and I encountered two baseball references while watching a couple of our favorite shows on Sunday — Homeland and Boardwark Empire. Homeland is the story of Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine held captive for eight years in Afghanistan who may or may not have been turned into a sleeper agent by Al Qaeda. […]
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Had to look twice when I saw this book at my local B&N. Does anyone see the irony in this? So is The Nook Book available on the Nook? Can you get The Nook Book for Kindle via Amazon?
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Sung to the tune of “We didn’t Start the Fire,” by Bill Joel: New York Mets are shutting down, their old ballpark; won’t be found. What’s a proper way to say, “thanks for all that?” Why not host a concert, eh?, Get a mega-star to play. Google You-Tube videos: “Mets-Cubs” and “black cat.” Looking for a […]
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Just returned from vacation in the Berkshires, Hancock, specifically. A very nice place just across from Jiminy Peak. Managed to get a lot of reading done, including two books that will be the subject of reviews. I wanted to give a shout out to Tom and Elizabeth of Elizabeth’s Restaurant in nearby Pittsfield. I bring […]
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Heading off to the Berkshires for a week, weather permitting. I don’t have a Kindle/Nook/e-reader, so I have to do it the old-fashioned way: schlepping a box of books (fortunately, we’re driving). I always take too many books and too few clothes (fortunately we’ll have a washing machine in our timeshare unit). So this is […]
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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
