Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Read the story from HomeRunDerby.com here, with another piece about baseball stadiums made from Legos, here.
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Last November, SABR’s Board of Directors approved the creation of a new Research Committee, with the “Black Sox” scandal as its focus. SABR members can join by following the link MySABR at the SABR web site … and can then join the Yahoo discussion group (which has grown since it started in 2003 to over […]
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In his new autobiography, Call Me Ted, Ted Turner includes one chapter devoted to his ownership of the Atlanta Braves. Using the lessons learned through the Rob Neyer School of Detection, it seems that Turner has some lapses of memory, at best, or is fabricating, at worst. He writes about taking over the team in […]
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It appears on a hit TV show like CSI. I don’t normally watch the show, but I caught a recent episode “on demand” and noticed this from a scene in a prison library. It comes about 20 seconds in and you have to be alert: as Gil Grissom is looking for a book an inmate […]
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Dear Joe, Welcome to LA. Tommy Lasorda is thrilled about your arrival. Now you have someone to talk to in Italian. Too bad he canceled the parade for you, but when he found out he couldn’t be in the lead car… well, we all knew you’d understand. Hey, at least you don’t have to wash […]
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The New York Times ran these audios from various celebrities regarding their thoughts on Yankee Stadium, including Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own) Robert Creamer (Babe: The Legend Comes to Life) Author Jane Heller Ari Fleischer, former White House Press secretary
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The former all-star second baseman recently read to a group of students at an elementary school in Kansas City as part of a literacy program. You can view a brief video, courtesy KansasCity.com, here
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Jane Austen wrote about baseball 40 years before it was ‘invented’ A headline in the London Telegraph. Jane Austen wrote about baseball 40 years before its official invention, according to a new book. But evidence of the game’s British origins was erased from history by the American sports magnate Albert Spalding, according to the book’s […]
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As mentioned yesterday: As an unrepentant skeptic, I was wondering if the “powers that be” consulted the managers of the Rays and Phillies, urging them not to steal any bases. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a report on how many of these digestive bombs were doled out.
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From the blog: Wrigley Field And from the book by the same name: The Boston Red Sox Though many would argue that the Chicago Cubs are the top club for white people, the Boston Red Sox remain the undisputed white franchise. In fact, were it not for the players, there would be no recorded instances […]
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My wife recently gave me a bottle of Driven the new fragrance inspired/created/whatever by Derek Jeter, My dilemma: what do I do with this? On the one hand, I know I should use it. On the other hand, would this have any value as a collector’s item? Either way, I can keep it on the […]
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So just who do those Brits think they are, printing a piece like “How Baseball Explains the U.S. Elections“? Somewhere I’m sure there’s an article about World Series winners as a predictor of the Presidential elections. Hmm, let’s see. Since the first World Series in 1903 (the Fall Classic wasn’t played in 1904), 25 have […]
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A website specifically about baseball e-books? Seems so. Most of the title appear to be instructional in nature. One of the links brings the reader to an e-book on How to Score Baseball. A cursory glance: not too bad. Not sure exactly how much of the book is available at no cost.
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Or “This is why we’re falling behind the other industrialized nations.” Bates College offers a course about “Red Sox Nation”
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This year marks the first time since 1995 that a New York team has not been in a playoff. So what will sportswriters cover during the playoffs? Well, The New York Times ran this story today, along with this sidebar, on those fancy patterns in the outfield grass. Want that look for your own backyard? […]
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Keep your sunny side up, up! Hide the side that gets blue. If you have nine sons in a row, Baseball teams make money, you know! Keep You’re Sunny Side Up With your kind indulgence. Ahem…: The deed is done, the Marlins won. The Mets again have lost. Their fans are sad, feel they’ve been […]
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To paraphrase chopper pilot Frank Lapidus on Lost. A front-page story in today’s New York Times reports how airplanes pilots use Shea Stadium as a landmark. Hope they’ll still be able to find their way.
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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
