Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Just arrived at the Tampa Bay Sheraton Suites, where I will spend the next week as an embedded journalist at Yankee Fantasy Camp, specifically writing about the new Kosher component. Ran into an old “colleague,” Bryan Hoch, who covers the Yankees for MLB.com. I met Bryan years ago when he was a 19-year-old covering the […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6. Title Rank General The Bill James Handbook 2010 (Ranks 613 in books) 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski (709) 2 Moneyball: The […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 30. Title Rank General Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 23. Title Rank General Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 1 Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 16. Title Rank General Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler 1 The Machine: A Hot Team, a […]
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All Things Considered often features stories about baseball. But they don’t podcast so it’s a rare treat to post one of their stories. In this case, it’s a pro-fantasy piece by Tony Horwitz which sings the praises of books on the topic. Sometimes a fantasy…is all you need.
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From MVN.com (Most Valuable Network), a social web site, this thoughtful argument about “The Problems of Sabremetrics,” with a reference to Sam walkers Fantasyland. Upshot: …the work of Bill James, Ron Shandler and their ilk has brought a new dynamic to our understanding of how baseball players succeed and fail on the diamond. Yet despite […]
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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
* An Overviews of Annuals
July 18, 2009
Been meaning to do this since the beginning of the season. The best laid plans, and all that. Anyway, the missus has been complaining that she keeps tripping over these (mostly) thick volumes, so here goes. The volumes share a theme: analyzing the previous year. For some, however, this is only done as a predictor […]
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