Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, so here goes. MLB.com posted this story about Andrew Zimablist, who published Circling the Bases: Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry last October. WithLeather blogs about Jose Canseco’s upcoming (and unpromising?) appearance on he new season of Celebrity Apprentice. Speaking of television, will baseball […]
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As the days dwindle down to a precious few, here’s an attempt at a major catch-up: I met Rob Fitts at the SABR convention in Washington, DC, last year. His specialty is Japanese baseball. Here’s his site on baseball cards. The NY Times‘ Alan Schwarz covered the convention’s always-entertaining trivia contest. You know the theoretical […]
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Trying to play catch-up once again: Reviews of Michael Shapiro‘s Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself and Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, by Josh Wilker, can be found on Meals from the Marketplace. Upshots: Bottom of the Ninth — “he […]
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Had so much fun (and have so much left over), I thought I’d do some more. Notes for Bibliophiles found this (very) oldie but goodie. Really looking forward to reading The Four Fingers of Death, a novel by Rick Moody, which contains at least a tiny bit of storyline about baseball, as indicated by this […]
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Baseball America ran this interview with Dirk Hayhurst, author of The Baseball Gospels. Hayhurst is currently on the Blue Jays’ 60-day disabled list, which gives him lots of time to hump his boo, which reportedly will be on the NY Times‘ next best-seller list. * * * Slate published this entertaining (and too-brief) comparison of […]
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My apologies for falling way behind. Still basking in my post-Yankee fantasy camp experience, which you will be able to read about in the pages of the New Jersey Jewish News in the next week or so, as well as Broadside Bombers next year. So without further ado: Ron Shandler, who publishes the popular Baseball […]
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Author Daniel Ford previews his as-yet-unfiehsed baseball novel on his epnonymous blog, Baseball Sunday with Daniel Ford. So, some of the ballparks are going the healthy route and selling fresh fruit? What are they, my mother? A review of a book about old baseball by a young fan (Major League Baseball Players of 1916, published […]
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The Sunday papers are great for filling space with features that don’t get dap during the week. For example, the Arizona Republic published this interesting piece on the dearth of real superstars these days, while the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran this reminisence on Harvey Haddix’s near-perfect game.
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From The New York Times, another look at Paul Dickson and his new Baseball Dictionary (May 23). A review of Michael Shapiro’s Bottom of the Ninth from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 24). Phiily.com on the new A-Rod book (May 24). Author appearance: Amy Whorf McGuiggan will discuss her new book, Take Me Out to The […]
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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
Bits and pieces
May 22, 2010
SFReeper critiques Emma Span’s look at the game from the distaff side and Jason Turbow’s do’s and dont’s. If the British read Moneyball, do they have to convert it into pounds or euros? The AV Club conducted this Q&A with Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. You gotta wonder if he grew […]
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