Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
This piece on MyCentralJourney.com features an exhibit on baseball in the Garden State running through June 27. The Revival of Professional Baseball in New Jersey, an exhibit in the second-floor gallery of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street, Newark, highlights the return of baseball as a community activity in New Jersey, and encompasses every one […]
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Perhaps the most synonymous name with sports equipment and the national pastime is Louisville Slugger. It’s come to be used like Kleenex, Jello, or Xerox — technically incorrect, but representative of the industry. Hard to believe but Hillerich & Bradsby, the company that produces this piece of Americana, is in its fifth generation and 125 […]
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A lot of fans proably forget that the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is also a library. I spent a great week up there several years ago, doing research for a book about baseball during the Korean War years. the staff couldn’t have been nicer, and the access of walking around like I belonged was […]
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‘Peanuts at Bat: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz” at the Riverside (Calif.) Metropolitan Museum is an inside look at characters created by the master cartoonist and his take on a favorite American pastime. The exhibit runs through Sept. 14. The museum is located at 3580 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, (951-826-5273).
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The Los Angeles Central Library is hosting “Play Ball! Images of Dodger Blue, 1958-1988,” a photographic exhibition, through November 9. The curator for the exhibit is David Davis, a contributing writer to Los Angeles Magazine and The Times’ Book Review. “Since 1958, the Dodgers have been a vital, integral part of the social fabric of […]
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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
* At the risk of tooting my own horn…
November 26, 2008
Thirteen years in the making. In 1995, I delivered my first “scholarly paper.” It was at Hoftsra University’s centennial celebration of Babe Ruth’s birth and it was a hoot. I spent three days there, listening to all sorts of presentations, visiting exhibits and finally — nervously — making my own. My topic was “The Books […]
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