Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Unless, of course, your toddler tosses it back. From Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog: Since being featured on the front page of Yahoo! on Wednesday afternoon, the Big League Stew post containing the highlight has been one of the most clicked in this blog’s history and I don’t think it’s hard to figure […]
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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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Unless that’s a chaw of tobacco gone wrong…
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Because you can keep the souvenir cups on your bookshelf. And at some of these prices, you better. Today’s Wall Street Journal ran this little item about the cost of beer at the ballpark as a factor of the team’s success. I see that several of the venues mention sell 20-21 oz. cups, which is […]
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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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Yeah, I remember my first beer… Baltimore police say four young men stole an aluminum No. 8 that commemorates Orioles great Cal Ripken outside the Camden Yards ballpark. The four were arrested early Wednesday, about two hours after the theft, and the monument was recovered. The Orioles have a series of 4-foot aluminum monuments depicting […]
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This piece on a new generation of protective gear from The New York Times. The macho-ness of the athlete still prefers cool over safety. But ask some of the poor guys who were badly injured by bean balls to see if they might not have wanted one of these babies. …[I]t is hard to predict […]
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Hee. Actually, this might be the case some day down the road.
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For me, as a freelance writer, anyway. My first major published piece was a review of Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, by Harvey Frommer for Elysian Fields Quarterly in 1993, which you’ll find after the break. I wax nostalgic because I learned at the recent SABR Convention that EFQ might be forced to ceases publication […]
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New MLB 09 commercials discovered! The original: On the other hand, don’t give up your day job just yet. I guess it’s a matter of motivation. (Does that Sullivan guy remind anyone else of Grandpa from The Munsters? Use your imagination; picture him with slicked-back hair and a cape.) What do you think, Sullivan’s granddaughter? […]
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Passing along this interesting email I received today. In light of recent developments, it’s especially timely. Greetings. I am a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, currently working on a dissertation on the history of the song “God Bless America” and its uses after the September 11th attacks. I have developed an online survey on current […]
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I was flattered to be the subject of this interview with Favorite PASTimes, a blog dedicated to historical fiction. Interesting to be on the opposite side of things.
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and I’ll be grateful for about 2 1/2 extra years, according to this piece from The Wall Street Journal. … researchers at Wayne State University, major-league players who have nicknames live 2½ years longer, on average, than those without them. On the other hand, I can absolutely refute further findings that “players whose first or […]
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Chris Berman on Home Run Derby. How many times can you listen to “Back, back, back!!!”?
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From the NY Times, this piece on Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel and some potentially unexpect (and univited) guests. Sounds like somebody’s been reading Haunted Baseball past his bedtime. .
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Apropos to the previous entry, we might have a Rob Neyer moment here. In the snippet, Redford claims to have been in New York where he attended a Yankees-Red Sox game. He mentions that Maris and Mantle were in the lineup, but not Williams. He doesn’t give a date, but it had to have been […]
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NY fan gets $10K in ‘God Bless America’ suit
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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
