Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
As in Library of Congress. Just received this email from Darren Jones, reference librarian for that august institution and am happy to pass it along: Dear Baseball Enthusiasts: With the start of the 2021 World Series later this month, we want to share with you some online resources from the Library of Congress about the […]
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Keith Hernandez has had an unfortunate accident. This comes on the heels of last week’s Ron Blomberg Laundry Fiasco. By the way, I decided to keep that card as a reminder. I know, it’s a paradox. Just another reminder of life’s impermanence.
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Pardon me while I wax philosophical for a moment. I recently experienced a blow-out on the Garden State Parkway on the way to work at five o’clock in the morning. I was able to creep to the nearest exit and maneuver into the parking lot of a convenience store from which I called AAA. In […]
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According to a translation site, the header above (pronounced “fushigina hōkō e korogaru”) is the Japanese equivalent of “down the rabbit hole,” which is where I fell after finding a story about Shinji Mizushima, “author of the popular Japanese ‘Dokaben‘ baseball manga series, [who] decided to end his career as a manga artist Tuesday, his […]
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My baseball library is divided into three main sections: the attic, my basement office, and the rest of the house. I was cleaning the attic yesterday, because what else is there to do? While trying to cull the herd, putting things in boxes to eventually give away or ::shudder:: throw out, I can across a […]
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I’ve been collecting baseball cards for most of my life; not as much these days because I’m a grown-ass adult. For the most part, they have all been the same: a photograph surrounded by the annual change in design. More recently, a number of companies have joined Topps, coming out with multiple sets, almost ad […]
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One of the things I do collect are baseball caps. But the rule is that the purchase — either by I myself or a friend who’s getting it as a gift — has to be made in the city where the team is based. I rotate them often but after reading this, I wonder if […]
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As baseball card collectors of a certain age know, Topps used to include various premiums in every pack of cards. I’m talking about the mid-60s to mid 70s, I’m guessing, although a Google search shows that the company has been revisiting past successes by offering some of these things again. One year it could be […]
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We have a calendar at Trader Joe’s on which is listed — in addition to staff birthdays (yay!) — various “national days,” such as “National Chocolate Milk Day” or “National Cheesecake Day.” (Are there corresponding greeting cards for all the occasions?) I’m betting that some of these are created by the industries which they encompass. […]
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You will forgive a father’s pride, but my daughter, Rachel, a photo editor for iHeart Media, recently compiled this listicle on baseball bobbleheads. I still haven’t gotten over her being a Yankees fan, though. Oh well, can’t have everything.
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I was chatting with a co-worker who is about to go to Seattle for vacation. One of the items on his agenda is attending Comic-Con. Seems he’s a collector of Funko figures. Who knew? Evidently these are like the next generation of Beanie Babies. There are probably hundreds of these things, and some of them […]
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Headnote: I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m […]
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Headnote: I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m […]
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Headnote: I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m […]
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Headnote: I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m […]
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Fifteen bobbleheads for $300 seems like a bargain. (especially when you can buy them individually for $25 bucks apiece) but when you see that these are figurines from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, it’s a true find. Teams represented include: Rockford Peaches Chicago Colleens Battle Creek Belles Grand Rapids Chicks Fort Wayne Daisies South […]
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I’ve decided to bow to the times and include separate lists for e-books and audio books. Be aware that while many titles also appear in print versions, pretty much anyone can produce an e-book these days, so I’m not going to comment at all about the quality. As far as the audio goes, I’m a […]
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If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the Jewish sports fan, you can’t do much better than The Jewish Baseball Card Book, by Bob Wechsler. Based on the popular Jewish card sets produced by Martin Abramowitz (who helped on the project along with Peter McDonald), this coffee table edition features photos and brief stories […]
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Brought to you by Kellogg’s 3-D Super Star’s card set, as told by Scott Ferkovich on The National Pastime Museum site. I have a set of these in a footlocker up in the attic. Funny how “modern” they seemed at the time. There were a number of companies that put out their own sets of […]
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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
This is progress?
February 8, 2022
Apropos of my recent post about the things we keep, don’t keep, or don’t get in the first place, I went ahead and purchased a copy of the 2021 Mets yearbook. I was especially curious because of the whole 2020 season having been played under a Covid cloud. Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, it was […]
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