Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Sourcebooks recently released Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year That Changed Baseball Forever. For my review of the book, see here. This piece appeared today on SuburbanChicagoNews.com.
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American City Business Journals has completed its acquisition of The Sporting News and moved its operations to Charlotte, NC. ACBJ also owns the Street & Smith Sports Group. TSN has been on a decline over the last several years. They recently made the decision to halt print publication of its annual baseball record book and […]
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From the Chicago Sun Times, this report of a local TV documentary on the WGN-Cubs 60-year relationship. An accompanying book, Cubs Forever, is due out from Triumph Books this spring. This leads to an observation on the recent trend towards “copy-cat” books that use the same format tailored to each team. For example, in addition […]
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According to a report in the Feb. 25 issue of Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, Major League Baseball joins the NFL in limiting the amount of content news outlets can post on their on-line presences. “MLB is limiting news organizations from posting more than 120 seconds a day of audio or video from league […]
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Unless I’m reading this wrong, that’s what this announcement is saying. Shouler, who already wrote this book a few yeas ago, is seeking a comeback of sorts. Thanks to the shadow of steroids, he’s suggesting taking a fresh look. The Arabic number 609 exceeds 586. But can anyone say with a straight face that Sammy […]
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Received this e-mail from Dugoutcentral.com: DugoutCentral is pleased to announce that the winners of its Spring Training Writing Contest will receive free, one-on-one consulting with esteemed writing coach Susan White for the first half of the 2008 MLB season. For those fan writers who are serious about improving their skills, this is a unique opportunity.Susan […]
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It’s taken more than 100 years, but according to this article in the Jan. 29 New York Times, the Wall Street Journal will finally sully its reputation by incorporating sports coverage within its august pages. Mr. Murdoch says he wants The Journal to expand nonbusiness coverage, especially in areas like politics, government and entertainment, while […]
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After a shaky first quarter, the publishing giant made a nice comeback, posting a 3.3 percent sales increase for the period ending December 31. HC has published dozens of noteworthy titles, including, just to name a few The Story of Baseball: Third Revised and Expanded Edition, by Lawrence Ritter Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster […]
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GB/LP have put out some interesting, off-beat baseball books and they continue that tradition this year. The Ballad of Billy & George, by Phil Pepe picks up on the recent ESPN miniseries, The Bronx is Burning, which highlighted the tempestuous relationship between Yankees manager Billy Martin and owner Billy Martin. If reality was anything like […]
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How long ago did this book come out? Last October? I was at Barnes and Noble on Tuesday and saw it on the remainder table for $3.98. Further proof that the general public considers old timers like Tommy Lasora out of touch. Listen to him on a recent B&N podcast of Meet the Authors and […]
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The following is based on an article by Bob Cottrell, Margaret Heilbrun, Paul Kaplan (no relation), and Gilles Renaud from the Feb. 1 issue of Library Journal My comments appear in parenthesis; the writers’ in the indented paragraphs. The Code: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your- Own-Risk Code of Conflict, by Ross Bernstein. Triumph. March […]
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José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book “Juiced,” offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder “clear” in his next book if the player invested money in a film project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the […]
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The CASEY Award was inaugurated in 1983 by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, the editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, to honor the authors and publishers of outstanding baseball books, a heretofore unrealized notion. Seven books were named as finalists for the first CASEY: Baseball’s Greatest Experiment, The Celebrant, Hoopla, Invisible Men, […]
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A few months back, I had the opportunity to chat with Joseph Rinaldi, director publicity for Thomas Dunne Books (an imprint of St. Martin’s Press), on how his company picks its baseball titles and what works best in a discriminating, and relatively small readership. In 2007, TD released Ty and The Babe: Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals; […]
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Potomac Books (formerly Brassey’s, Inc.) seems like an odd publisher for baseball titles. According to Kevin Cuddihy, an editor at the company, Potomac “has its roots in military history and has had a fair number of hits with political books.” The line of sports books began in 2000 and was the first “mainstream publisher of […]
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McFarland Publishers has a unique place in the world of baseball literature. Known for their eclectic academic work in the arts, sciences, humanities, etc. they also specialize in topics that might be considered extremely narrow in interest within the national pastime. In fact, it seems comfortable to say that if it were not for this […]
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What, if anything, those rankings mean on Amazon.com or the Barnes and Noble site (BN.com) mean, read Carl Bialik’s March 23, ’07 column from his Wall Street Journal column, “The Numbers Guy.”
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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
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
February 17, 2008
From a Feb 15 press release from the Oakland A’s: The Oakland A’s today announced that they have agreed to terms with free agent catcher Matt LeCroy on a minor league contract. LeCroy will be a non-roster invitee to spring training. The A’s also announced that non-roster invitee catcher Jeremy Brown announced his retirement….Brown was […]
Tagged as: Jeremy Brown, Moneyball
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