Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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To mark the opening of spring training, I will be making my podcast debut tomorrow (Feb. 16) at 11 p.m. Eastern, on BBA Baseball Talk, a weekly program on Blog Talk Radio. The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a confederation of 132 blogs working together for collaboration and discussion possibilities. This one-hour show will discuss the […]
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The New York Times ran this article today about the increased number of women in administrative positions in baseball. How coincidental, then, to find this entry from the We’ve Got Heart blog, featuring interviews some of these ladies as well as author Jane “Confessions of a She-Fan” Heller and, coming soon. Cait “Crazy ’08” Murhpy.
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From the eclectic PitchersndPoets site comes the “Rogue’s Baseball Index,” a sort of urban dictionary about the national pastime. RBI is divided into several categories, including entries about players, fans, management, media, et al. A random entry: The George Will is a hyper-intellectualized fan who gets so caught up in the history and legend and […]
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Today in Baseball: “What happened on this date in baseball history?” Bardball.com: “Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel” And don’t forget to check in occasionally to FlipFlopFlyin.com, which offers some thought-provoking graohcis of baseball questions.
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In this case, it’s “writing,” at least according to this entry on Seekerville, a blog about the writing craft. In baseball, like any other sport, in addition to having that natural talent, the players must spend years preparing: learning the nuances and rules of the game, conditioning themselves, practicing, playing, learning the “market” (how other […]
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I was flattered to be the subject of this interview with Favorite PASTimes, a blog dedicated to historical fiction. Interesting to be on the opposite side of things.
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books on baseball, that is, at least according to this blogger. The list includes: The Kid from Tomkinsville The Southpaw The Glory of Their Times Stealing Home The Bill James Historical Abstract
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Yes, according to this post from The Tao of Stieb, a Toronto-based blog. Last month, we had some time to kill at a Chapters megastore….What we were met with was depressing enough to make us literally (and I mean literally) recoil and walk away. The baseball section was a wall that was almost completely filled […]
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I love Pardon the Interruption, and not just because the show tends to tend to agree with my point of view and vice versa. On yesterday’s show, Messers Wilbon and Kornheiser weighed in on the Raul Ibanez steroids situation, which I had addressed earlier in the afternon. (Funny, but the whole situation stemmed from a […]
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RiverAveBlues.com, the official Yankees blog of the YES Network, recently ran this review of Jane Heller’s book.
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And when it comes to sportswriting, the forecast doesn’t appear too rosy, at least according to this well-done essay from the Pitchers and Poets (motto: “Both have their moments”) blog. Eric, the author of the entry titled “On Writing, Baseball Writing, and the 21st Century,” concludes the thought-provoker, If Jim Bouton was on today’s version […]
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Greg Prince, who heads up the Faith and Fear in Flushing blog, recently came out with a book that collects all the love for the Mets he can muster. In this entry, and in honor of the Passover holiday, he uses the “Four Questions” approach to discuss five new titles, not all of which are […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
September 14, 2009
The Washington Informer, an African-American community newspaper, published this item on Larry Tye, author of the new Satchel Paige biography, prior to his Sept. 9 appearance at the Smithsonian. Jim Bouton chats with ESPN’s Jim Caple in this video/article. (Here’s a different video:) Every year come August, you can count on a bunch of articles […]
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