Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com on Friday, January 1. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Title Rank General The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 2 The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story […]
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Semi-shameless self promotion: this assessment was written by James Bailey and yours truly. Titles include: Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend Catcher: How the Man behind the Plate […]
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The poster-boy for Jewish sports of the boomer generation turns — wait for it — 74 today! Hard to believe he’s been away from the game for more than 40 years, but his legacy goes on. Even today, parents invoke the Hall of Fame pitcher: “If Sandy Koufax could miss the World Series for Yom […]
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com on Saturday, December 26. Title Rank General Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 1 The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci 2 Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress 3 Baseball Prospectus 2010 4 The Bill James Handbook 2010 […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, December 18. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci 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 2 Moneyball: The Art […]
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The book is slated for a March 2010 release. From the catalog: Silver Seasons and a New Frontier: The Story of the Rochester Red Wings, Second Edition, by Jim Mandelaro and Scott Pitoniak. Taking us back to the early nineteenth century, when baseball was played in the meadows and streets of Rochester, New York, Silver […]
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See how well you can do on this Mental Floss quiz about the 1988 film version of Eliot Asinof’s classic about the 1919 Black Sox. I had a perfect score; I’m just sayin’.
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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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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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