Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
According to this item from the daily Publishers Weekly e-mail. Why is this significant? Both companies have put out several baseball titles over the last few years. Sourcebooks titles include: Do You Know the New York Yankees?: Test your expertise with these fastball questions (and a few curves) about your favorite team’s hurlers, sluggers, stats […]
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As a kid I collected baseball cards. As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I never thought of them as investments so I subjected them to all sorts of indignities: writing on them, taping over the team names when the player was traded, pasting them to oaktag for school projects (I could have retired […]
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Economics is one of those topics that is so important but that seemingly few people really understand. Box Score, a new blog, sounds interesting in that its purpose is to break the components down into understandble concepts using baseball. So what could be bad? In this entry, the bloggers refer to Moneyball and Strat-o-matic, two […]
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From Men’s Vogue, this review of Ballet in the Dirt, the pricey photography book by Neil Leifer. Another Leifer feature appeared in the Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post ran this review on the new biography on Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural, generally considered the first “adult” baseball fiction. Itsaboutthemoney, a blog “celebrating the […]
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Lots of “Bits and Pieces” With little beside the steroids business going on during this off-season, there’s lots of time to read and many bloggers are posting reviews, including. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, Cobb: A Biography, and Is This a Great Game or What, all from […]
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Trying to clean up a lot of backlog here: *** From the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, this review of Dana Brands’ Mets Fan. *** Charles C. Alexander, author of biographies on Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, as well as a treatise on baseball during the Depression, recently released his studious account on Tris Speaker. […]
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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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Two items for your consideration: 108mag This new publication (they launched in the summer of 2006) “celebrates the contribution of baseball to American history, culture, and community.” It has a fairly impressive cast of contributors, including John Thorn, author and editor of such works as Total Baseball, Treasues of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 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
