Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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From the Kansas City Star, this outrageous piece about the high price of tickets. I remember when baseball was considered the most fan-friendly sport when it came to taking the family to the ballpark. Those days are long gone.
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Taking some well-needed vacation time to Spain. Wonder if I can use my electronic scoreboard to keep abreast while overseas? Anyway, back in a couple of weeks, just in time for the All-Star game. Be well, keep reading.
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One of the best commcercials of all time: Anyway, just a weird way of introducing this cute service from XM radio: Make yourself into a virtual bobblehead doll! Complete with music! Save it or e-mail it to your friends.
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Because I actually have a few harmonicas on my bookshelf… Linz, a mediocre infielder in the 1960s, was a member of the 1964 Yankees and got into an altercation with his manager, Yogi Berra (thanks to some instigation by Mickey Mantle), for playing a harmonica on the team bus after a tough loss. The to-do […]
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According to the Web site, MIStupid.com (“The online knowledge magazine”), the average life of a baseball is seven pitches.
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No Hall of Famer, he. In fact, Cohen won three of his ten decisions for the Washington Senators in the 1930s. Although he had only 33 at bats, he struck out just three times, not bad for a pitcher. Syd was the brother of Andy Cohen, an infielder for the NY Giants in the ’20s.
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Few things get me misty eyed, but I couldn’t even get through the opening paragraphs of George Vecsey’s column today, about the compassion of opponents at a women’s college softball game. As you will read, Sara Tucholsky, a Western Oregon senior with a four-year batting average way south of .200 had a dream come true […]
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From The Comics Curmodgeon, one of my favorites. (Ignore “The Family Circus”; I always do.)
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Here’s a PSA from an unexpected source, the American Jewish Committee, extolling the benefits of working together for a common cause. The cartoon was one of four in a series designed “to foster tolerance and human rights,” according to the edition of Variety (April 21, 1954), which gave AJC its annual award “for the best […]
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Because I used to keep model rockets on my bookshelf…
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Whenever I visit a new blog, I always take a look at whatever links the host has provided. Some of them are quite diverse and interesting and things I would never have found on my own, so I encourage you to take a moment at those listed on the right (assuming this hasn’t been translated […]
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You can look it up. Whenever the game gets a little out of whack, the powers that be try to level the playing field. For example, after the pitchers dominated in 1968, the mound was lowered the next year. So laugh if you will, but this idea, from the pen of cartoonist John McPherson, seems […]
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‘Nuff said.
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From the Associated Press: Red Sox outfielder Brandon Moss was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket after Boston’s 5-1 loss to Oakland on Wednesday. Moss played right field in Boston’s first two regular season games in Japan in place of the injured J.D. Drew. Moss’ ninth-inning home run tied Wednesday’s opener, which the Red Sox went on […]
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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
* I have been remiss
April 21, 2008
these last few days, the aftereffects of a dislocated finger suffered during a softball game with my new team, which I can also use as an excuse for my poor typing of late. (Thanks to those who have written out of concern.) This does, however, open the door for a couple of related reviews and […]
Tagged as: disabilities, injuries, Senior baseball
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