Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From mentalfloss.com: If there’s one author who bridges the cultural divide between the United States and Japan, it’s Haruki Murakami. The 60-year-old Kyoto native started writing relatively late in life, at age 29, and it was America’s national pastime that inspired him. While attending a baseball game in Tokyo, Murakami saw American Dave Hilton hit […]
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Or Green. As in the American and National Leagues’ ‘s Red and Green Book, respectively. The annual publications were conceived as tools for executives and the media, full of all kinds of unusual information, such as the origin of team logos and color schemes, name pronunciations, and of course, all manner of stats. They supplemented […]
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“In the early ’90s, the federal government came into pro wrestling and tried to put (WWE Chairman) Vince McMahon in prison for steroid use of wrestlers,” Ventura told NBC’s affiliate in Denver. “My question is: They’ve now determined 104 baseball players failed their steroid test in 2003 — 104. They indicted Vince McMahon, why aren’t […]
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Read the story from HomeRunDerby.com here, with another piece about baseball stadiums made from Legos, here.
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Or Jim Ray Hart? This Valentine’s Day list comes courtesy of the National Baseball Hal of Fame and Museum: Vance Lovelace, P Rick Sweet, C Pete Rose, 1B Cupid Childs, 2B Jake Flowers, SS Jim Ray Hart, 3B Candy Maldonado, LF Angel Mangual, CF Ellis Valentine, RF Miller Huggins, Manager John Hart, GM Gary Darling, […]
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Begging your indulgence, but here’s a request to readers of the Bookshelf to kindly take a moment, scroll down to the “blogged” symbol on the right (near the site counter), and rate this humble enterprise. You don’t have to leave comments, but I’d appreciate the input. Many thanks, The Management
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When I first started out with the Bookshelf, I just thought it would be a fun way to kill some time. But it seems to have grown on some of you baseball literati out there. The Bookshelf may not be the Huffington Post or even Baseball-Reference, but it’s still fun to do. I hope it […]
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This was today’s entry on my Mensa Puzzle Calendar: “Add one letter to the four letters at each base to form the word for a player on a Major League baseball team. Then take those added letters and add one more to form yet another team player.” It looks better in the original, and may […]
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At least that’s what it seems like when teams have press conferences to show off their new acquisitions, such as the one today for the Yankees’ Mark Teixeira. With all due respect, what can these guys possibly have to say that warrants such attention? I just keep coming up the same old rote answers. (Warning: […]
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A new twist on an old classic.
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The Yankees just signed Teixiera. Enough is enough. Getting on my soapbox again, I think that just as international teams are only allowed to have a certain amount of foreign-born players, so should the Majors only be allowed a certain amount of free agents; everyone else has to be “home grown.”
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Stevens was not a baseball player, manager, coach, front office exec, peanut vendor, or team mascot. Rather, Stevens, who passed away on Dec. 8 at the age of 60, was lawyer. His claim to fame? According to his obituary in The New York Times, his slyly humorous law-review note on the relationship between baseball’s infield […]
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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
* It's not easy being green…or red
March 23, 2009
More on the decision by MLB to cease the printed publication of the Red and Green Books. Murray Chass wrote about this awhile ago, and sure enough, it’s become a generational thing. David Appelman of FanGraphs.com: … as a younger person who uses the Internet (and sometimes even writes about baseball), I actually do have […]
Tagged as: Green Book, Murray Chass, Red Book
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