Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
No, not a stripper, but an outfielder/first baseman who played for several teams at the turn of the 20th century. he died on this date in 1932. Bonus Candy: Candy Cummings, credited with “inventing” the curveball, played in his last game on this date in 1877.
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William Chester Jacobson had an 11-year career (1915-27), mostly with the St. Louis Browns, and compiled a .311 batting average.
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Came across this piece about a comic give-away courtesy the Colorado Springs Sky Sox on the Againwiththecomics blog.
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Made his debut this day in 1912. From BaseballLibrary.com: Brown got his nickname because he was discovered playing on the sandlots of Atlantic City by a scout for Connie Mack. He was 13-11 for the A’s in 1912 and followed with 17-11 for the pennant winners of 1913, but was not used in the A’s […]
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This site offers dozens of reviews of baseball titles written by readers like ourselves (Scroll down to “sports”; there’s a link specifically for baseball titles). Typically, the publisher’s press release tops the individual page, followed by reader reviews and ratings. Think Amazon.com without all the ordering information and clutter. Like most criticism, the reviews can […]
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My thanks to The Sporkball Journals, who posted this bit of fiscal info a while back. Don’t forget, if you have a minute, to add your comments about the Bookshelf on Blogged.com (Scroll down the links portion of the page). Thanks in advance.
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I was home sick today and saw his 1987 movie Radio Days, which includes this scene:
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As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for awhle, I find the words “greatest” or “best” annoying. Totally subjective. “Complete” is also an oxymoron: until the very end of that particular item, how can something ever be complete? Add to that subsequent “volumes” of books that have only been writen recently; how can […]
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The perils of being a sports superstar in New York (or Los Angeles, I imagine), is that there are always gossip-inistas waiting to catch you doing something, whether it’s being out a bit too late (for a single person) and possibly playing some hanky-panky (kids, ask your parents) with another celeb. This one, from New […]
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That George Brett went ballistic when his “pine tar” home run was disallowed. The New York Times‘ Tyler Kepner returns to the scene of the “crime” in this piece. Jim Kaplan (no relation) wrote about the 1984 season in Pine-Tarred and Feathered: A Year on the Baseball Beat (although that was just one small part […]
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From collectorsquest.com, this small group of old baseball-related…stuff.
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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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Leave it to the NY Sun to cast a cloud over the final season of Yankee Stadium, castigating the ball club for what it didn’t do rather than highlight just the bright spots.
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Hard to believe that Ripley’s would find enough material to put together a whole book on baseball, but they have. Two comemnts on it from its page on Amazon.com: “A baseball hit 400 feet has twice the destructive energy as a bullet fired from a .8 calibur pistol. That, and other strange and unusual facts […]
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From the on-line version of the pop culture magazine, the Yankees wandering third baseman is a member of a special all-star team.
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Just arrived back from Spain. It was an interesting cultural experience. To paraphrase that philosopher, Steve Martin, “It’s like they have a different word for everything!” Except for The International Herald Tribune, available in the hotel lobby in Barcelona, I had no access to media at all: no papers, TV, or radio. I had no […]
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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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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
* Recalling a Nightline nightmare
July 29, 2008
The LA Times’ columnist Bill Dwyre dredges up a waterhsed moment in baseball: the undoing of Al Campanis before a national audience. Campanis, Dodgers’ vice president and director of player personnel at the time, was a guest on the program along with Roger Kahn, author of the Classic The Boys of Summer. to mark the […]
Tagged as: Al Campanis, Jackie Robinson
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