Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Perhaps jumping on the drug bandwagon/confessional, Otis Nixon, a former outfielder for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, is reportedly working on a book that describes his battle with drugs. *** Actress Laraine Day passed away Nov. 10. She was dubbed the “first lady of baseball” for her marriage to Leo Durocher, then the manager […]
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From The Week, a small sampling of the coverage of the Bonds indictment, Powered by ScribeFire.
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I found the dream vacation rental house. It’s located on (in?) Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii. Six bedrooms, sunroom, four bathrooms. Here’s the part of the description tha appeals to me most: It is well equipped with a gourmet kitchen, outside lanais with views of Diamond Head. The upstairs lanai’s are perfect for eating, sunbathing, or […]
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From the Norwood, Mass. Daily News Transcript, this “expose” about the Red Sox’ theme song, “Dirty Water.” Few know the song was written by a band from Los Angeles in the 1960s, and even fewer the incredible journey the song took before it was resurrected as the Red Sox victory anthem in 1998 following a […]
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From Cultureshock, brief reviews on Tim Kurkjian’s Is This a Great Game or What? and Jim Bouton’s Ball Four. *** From the Sept. 12 issue of The Queens Gazette, this review of Shea Stadium, part of the Arcadia Publishing stable. AP produces books consisting mostly of photographs of extremely local interest and has dozens of […]
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SABRmetric guru Bill James contributed this piece to the Boston Globe on using statistics ti actually improve the game. *** The Writer’s Life blog features this interview with Steven M. Reilly, author of the sports memoir, The Fat Lady Never Sings: How A High School Football Team Found Redemtpion on the Baseball Diamond. *** LA […]
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Is it just me, or does this message, sent yesterday by the Mets, have a familiar ring to it? (Actually, there will be no rings for the Mets this year…): Dear Mets Fan: All of us at the Mets are bitterly disappointed in failing to achieve our collective goal of building upon last year’s success. […]
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A staunch fan of the Chicago Cubs from Michigan City, Ind., has named the couple’s new son Wrigley. Last name Fields. Sounds like a Bart Simpson telephone gag.
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From The Baseball Crank and Blogcritics, two more reviews about Ladies and Gentlemen: The Bronx is Burning. From the Burlington Times News, an article about an appearance by George F. Will, author of Men at Work and Bunts. According to a story about the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Sept. 23 issue of USA Today (“Ghosts […]
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A collection of (very) brief entries on several dozen baseball titles from The Bullpen (“baseball’s collaborative encyclopedia”), a wiki-type subsection of the excellent Baseball-reference.com. “Books” fall into a broader “Media” category which also includes broadcaster, authors, writers, fictional abseball teams and characters, ESPN personalities, literature, movies, TV/Radio, and television shows. Like most wikis, this seems […]
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From Baseball-fever.com, this discussion thread about books, television, and other arts-type issues. From the Dowagiac (Mich.) Daily News Web site, an somewhat poorly-written item about a new book on the House of David, which includes considerable material about its famous baseball team. From the Faithandfear, a blog about the NY Mets, this review of Dana […]
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From the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, an extensive interview with the artists James Bassler, son of major leaguer catcher Johnny Bassler who played from 1913-14 with the Cleveland Naps and, after a seven year absence, returned for another seven years with the Detroit Tigers (1921-27). He compiled a lifetime .304 batting average with a […]
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From the Charleston Post and Courier, a review of HOME RUN: The Definitive History of Baseball’s Ultimate Weapon, by David Vincent (Potomac Books). David Vincent hits it out of the park with “Home Run.” But he must be charged with an error. The error being: only two pages of the book deal with the steroid […]
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Many years ago, Louisville Slugger used to put out an annual yearbook that was available primarily as a premium through sport good stores. I found this interesting source at Scribd.com.
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This list includes more than 125 reviews. Some are the books are duplicated by different reviewers.
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Catching up… From the Manchester Union Leader, a sports column with reviews of New England-centric media, including Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball, by Dan Shaughnessy; High & Outside, a documentary on Bill “Spaceman” Lee; and Yastrzemski, by Carl Yastrzemski. From The London Independent (the unlikely source), this report on the […]
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I was cleaning up my basement and found this old game. Never realized it had the Roger Maris seal of approval. See it in action. Of course, the game never worked like it does in the commercial (big surprise). The spring would break, the balls would fly over the edges, and I can never remember […]
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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
Presidential deja vu?
November 13, 2007
You would have thought that George Steinbrenner had learned his lesson. From UPI, Oct. 26: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the top recipient of baseball cash among the candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. An analysis of contributions by USA Today shows that diehard Yankees fan Guiliani has scored more than […]
Tagged as: George Steinbrenner, politics, presidential race
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