Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
NINE is a scholarly journal published twice a year by the University of Nebraska Press that “studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. [The] journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.” Included in […]
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The August edition includes: Reviews on Baseball Confidential: Secret History of the War Among Chandler, Durocher, MacPhail, and Rickey; The Lords of Baseball; and 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006 An annotated bibliography on Yankees books “What One Book” Survey (Note: Requires […]
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ESPN The Magazine lists the following baseball titles in its bi-weekly sports best-sellers list: Big Papi, by David Ortiz (St. Martin’s Press) (No. 3 overall) Opening Day, by Jonathan Eig (Simon and Schuster) (4) Clemente, by David Maraniss (Simon and Schuster) (5) I Told You I Wasn’t Perfect, by Denny McLain (Triumph) (9) I spoke […]
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Three baseball titles have been nominated for the 2007 Quill Awards, founded by Reed Business Information (Publishers Weekly) to honor the “most entertaining and enlightening titles” each year. This year’s picks were published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, with the winners in 19 categories to be selected by a popular votes of […]
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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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I have the pleasure of serving as editor for the Society for American Baseball Research Bibliography Committee newsletter. Herewith are links to recent issues, for your edifcation and amusement: Issue 1, 2006. Featuring a profile of Thomas Oliphant, author of Praying for Gil Hodges; Reviews of Cooperstown to Dyersville: A Geography of Baseball Nostalgia; Pure […]
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Now that Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn have been elected to the Hall of Fame, expect a few new titles to hit the bookshelves in the very near future. Actually, both fan favorites are already the subject of multiple titles. When Ripken was approaching Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played, writers worked overtime […]
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I’ve been meaning to make a list of my baseball library for some time, but found the prospect too daunting. Util recently. Thanks to Librarything.com, all one has to do is (usually) type in the ISBN number or title and all the info is provided in a nice format of the cataloguer’s choosing. So far, […]
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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
