Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the Salt Lake Tribune. Upshot: Open and book anywhere and begin. “The fun is to know what’s on the inside,” he said. “That was story I wanted to tell.” Bert Sugar’s Hall of Fame is a tale well told.
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These days, publishing companies are calling on their authors to do even more in terms of getting the word out about their new projects, be it web sites, blogs, or videos such as this one by Chafets, whose Cooperstown Confidential (Bloomsbury) comes out in July. He wrote this commentary on A-Rod (who hit a home […]
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Hall of Fame, American Library Association Partner To Tell Story of Pride and Passion Traveling Exhibit Dedicated To African-American Baseball Experience Making Its Way To 50 Libraries Around America (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the American Library Association have teamed up to help tell the story of the […]
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From our friend Greg Spira comes this link to LibraryJournal.com’s annual baseball feature. Among the usual share of biographies and memoirs, histories, and social commentaries are such themes as: Yet another biography about Yogi Berra, this one by homonymic author Allen Barra, and one on Walter O’Malley by Michael D’Antonio Ira Berkow’s bio of Lou […]
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The two newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Henderson is already the subject / “author” of a couple of books, but I bet it won’t be long before we have a Rice title in book stores everywhere.
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Been receiving some publisher’s catalogs recently. Here are a few 2009 titles to look forward to: >> As mentioned previously, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci have collaborated on the manager’s autobio, coming next month from Random House. >> Bloomsbury will release a behind-the-scenes look at the machinations of baseball’s Valhalla in Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, […]
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The Baseball Timeline, by Burt Solomon (Dorling Kindersley Publishing). The Chronicle of Baseball: A Century of Major League Action, by John Mehno (Carlton Books). A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845-2000. by Gene Elston (Halcyon Press). Day-by-Day in Baseball History, by Carl R. Moesche (McFarland). Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game […]
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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
* Bits and pieces
July 20, 2009
Trying to play catch-up once again: From SlidingintoHome, a Yankees-centric blog, a couple of new titles about the Bronx Bombers. Boogiedownbaseball, another blog about the Yankees, is one of several outlets that profile the new Marty Appel biography on Thurman Munson. For more, check out BaseballHotCorner. The JorgeSayNo blog features an interview with the author […]
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