Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will recognize the twin traditions of baseball and film when, for the fourth consecutive year, it hosts the Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, Oct. 2-4. Thirteen films, with themes ranging from women in baseball to a baseball league in Israel, will be screened as filmmakers compete for […]
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We won’t be done with the All-Star break until Thursday, so if your baseball Jones gets too strong, watch HBO’s documentary about the Splendid Splinter in Ted Williams: There Goes the Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived. The special premiers Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST. Here’s a review from Newsday. You can read Williams’ ESPN obituary […]
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A new documentary, Touching the Game: Alaska chronicles the 50-year history of the Alaska Baseball League and how it became a source of more than 500 Major League Baseball players.
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MLB.com’s Doug Miller contributed this list of independent films that have baseball somewhere within its theme, if not the actual subject. Some are documentaries, others are features, several premiered at film festivals. Diminished Capacity (2008): Directed by Terry Kinney, the veteran actor and performer who garnered acclaim in his role as Tim McManus in the […]
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Yes, Robin, there was hardball in the Holy Land last year, with the inaugural season of the Israel Baseball League. Six teams played during the summer of ’07; three of which were led by former Major Leaguers Art Shamsky, Ken Holztman, and Ron Blomger, who led his team to the championship. Unfortunately, and for a […]
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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 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
