Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, December 11. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (448) 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 (649) 2 Sixty […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 27. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski (490) 1 Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (625) 2 The Yankee […]
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(Full disclosure: I contributed a chapter to The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin’ Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World.) On the Black, a Mets-centric blog, featured a three part series on this new collaborative effort edited by Matthew Silverman and Ken Samelson. Part 1 Part 2 (an interview with Silverman) Part 3 […]
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While many people look forward to the holiday catalogs that have already been stuffing mailboxes, or the seed catalogs that start arriving shortly after the new year, I look forward to the book catalogs that come every few months. The latest from the University of Nebraska Press contains the regular inclusion of baseball titles that […]
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A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams, by Gary W. Moore I wanted to wait a bit after Veteran’s Day because I didn’t want this to appear as a knock against the vets. I have nothing but respect for them, their service and sacrifice. Gary Moore writes this respectful, affectionate […]
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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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Spitball Magazine release its list of nominees for its Casey Book Award, given annual for the publication’s take on the best baseball book of the year. The 2009 roster includes: As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6. Title Rank General Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, by Mark Frost 1 The Bill James Handbook 2010 2 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 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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The New York Times Book Review published this article by David Leonhardt, who writes a weekly economics column for the paper. His upshot in this full-page review: Despite its engaging moments, though, “Sixty Feet, Six Inches” is mostly unsatisfying, because Gibson and Jackson play their roles as the grizzled veterans too predictably…. The men go […]
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My regular Fall baseball book roundup — all revolving around the World Series — was posted to Bookreporter.com this evening. Titles include: The Machine, by Joe Posnanski Game Six, by Mark Frost Perfect, by Lew Paper The Original Curse, by Sean Deveney The First Fall Classic, by Mike Vaccaro The careful reader will not I […]
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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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Lew Paper, that is, author of the new book on Don Larsen’s World series no-hitter. Bill Littlefield offered this commentary on the Oct. 17 episode of Only a Game: In a new book misleadingly titled Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, Lew Paper, the author, tells a […]
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Words, actually. And days. In recognition of the post-season, the Brian Lehrer Show on NPR had two days of baseball terms, courtesy of Erin McKean of wordnik.com. The program was so nice, they ran it twice, first on Oct. 20and an “extra innings” segment the following day. McKean, who publishes Verbatim Magaizne (to which I […]
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Looks like Jayson Stark will be coming out with a new edition next year. More titles about the Phillies include: View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies, by Chris Wheeler Phillies Confidential: The Untold Inside Story of the 2008 Championship Season, “by” Gary Matthews More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps: The Story 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
* New titles from Bloomsbury
December 2, 2009
Their official spring-summer 2010 catalog isn’t online yet, but Bloomsbury is printing one new title and a 2009 title with a new afterword. The new title is Charlie Finley: The Life of Baseball’s Super Showman, a joint effort by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius, slated for a July release. From the catalog: Before […]
Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bloomsbury, Charlie Finley, Zev Chafets
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