Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, September 4. Title Rank General Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Games, Lewis 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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Alan Gratz’s Brooklyn Nine, the story of a young Jewish boy’s love for baseball in the early 20th century, is featured on the cover of the September issue of Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association. The issue highlights a sports theme and includes a number “top 10” choices in several categories, such as […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 21. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, Posnanski 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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(to borrow a film title). We all know the difficulties the newspaper industry are going through. I look at the sports section for the Star-Ledger and find stories take from the NY Daily News. Reporters and columnists are being bought out. So I guess it should come as no surprise to learn that the “Sport […]
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Only one feature in the issue (NFL Preview) and it concentrates on the Texas Rangers’ pitching staff. Hearing some disturbing things lately about this publication. From Thewrap.com: The numbers are hard to fathom. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a staggering 75 percent of consumer magazines saw their single-copy sales decline between June and […]
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Headline from The Star-Ledger (Newark), Tuesday, Aug. 25 (from the New York Daily News syndicate): “Wagner unlikely to go to Red Sox” Headline from The Star-Ledger (Newark), Wednesday, Aug. 26 (from the New York Daily News syndicate): “Wagner relents, okays deadline deal to Boston”
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The legendary Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell published this piece praising the improved quality of baseball literature in his Free Press column of Aug. 16. Among the titles mentioned (just to name a few) are Jonathan Eig’s Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 14. Title Rank General Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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WallStCheatSheet ran this interview with former ML pitcher, now stock trader Todd Stottlemyre. With all the noise about steroids and Bernie Maddof, perhasp its time to think about the branding image they’re putting out. Damien: Since you were never pigeonholed as “Todd the baseball player” or “Todd the student,” when you moved through your baseball […]
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Enjoyed many an interesting conversation at the recent SABR get-together in Washington, DC. Spent a lot of down time in the vendors room where publishers hosted some of their authors. The first interview is with Gary Mitchem, acquisitions editor for McFarland, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Mitchem discovered the processes he goes through […]
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This one is a toughie. Omar Minaya took time out in yesterday’s press conference announcing the firing of Tony Bernazard to point an accusing finger at NY Daily News sportswriter Adam Rubin. Aaccording to Minaya, Rubin had perhaps politicked (my phrase) for a player development job some time back and was therefore somewhat predisposed to […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 17. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 17. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 The Science of Hitting, Williams 4 As They See […]
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We so much for that. It seems that the screen version of Moneyball, which was all set to begin filming, has been canned, according to this story in Variety. The move came after Pascal read a rewrite that [Steven] Soderbergh did to Steven Zaillian’s script and found it very different from the earlier scripts she […]
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Loathe as I am to get dirty with the A-Rod book, I feel I would be derelict in my “duty” to ignore it. So we’ll try to make this as painless as possible. I’m still waiting for my copy, so I’m just passing along what I’ve read. The news falls into three basic camps: those […]
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One of the things I liked most about working for STATS Inc. was going to the ballpark, having a seat waiting for me in the press box, and being treated (almost) like any veteran member of the media. That included perks such as all matter of printed material, including media guides. For those who may […]
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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
*The ethics of sportswriting
September 10, 2009
Former NY Times baseball writer Murray Chass takes on the subject of anonymous sources in his most recent column. This issue came up in baseball books a few times this year, most notably Serena Roberts’ biography on Alex Rodriguez. Critics took her to task for using A.S. and dubious testimonials about the ballplayer’s use of […]
Tagged as: baseball writers, Murray Chass
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