Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The Boston Globe has been active on the baseball review front of late. Bill Nowlin, author of several titles on the Red Sox, contributed this piece on Howard Bryant’s bio of Hank Aaron for today’s edition. Yesterday, Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a Game, considered two baseball titles — Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker […]
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Man, I wish I had this type of article from Newsweek for other parts of daily life. Imagine: We eat it so you don’t have to. We go to work so you don’t have to. We argue with the wife so you don’t have to. We (fill in the blank) so you don’t have to. […]
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How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad, by Robert Elias. (The New Press) As per SFGate.com (Elias teaches law and politics at the University of San Francisco). Upshot: Elias has written both fiction and nonfiction about baseball and his love for the game shines through. But he also doesn’t hold […]
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You may not have heard of this one, since he never pitcher in the Major Leagues, but for those interested in Cuban baseball, here comes Pedro Luis Lazo, el Rascacielos de Cuba (Pedro Luis Lazo, the Cuban Skyscraper”) about the star hurler for Pinar del Rio, by Antonio Martínez De Osaba.
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For some bizarre reason, I’ve always been fascinated by the game of cricket and would love to find a place to play. Herewith a story about whether Americans will ever embrace the baseball-ish sport from the BBC.
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The MLB Network will present Holy Land Hardball, the documentary about the lone season of the Israel Baseball League, on Sunday, Jan. 10 at 10 p.m.
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From TampaBay.com, the web presence of the St. Petersbuerg Times. Upshot: The movie needs some trimming, and it wouldn’t hurt for something conventional to happen along its ambling way. Regardless, this is one of 2009’s most interesting and original films, so far. A-
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BaseballBookReview ran this piece on the Joel S. Franks book.
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Israel Dreams Big, As in Big League Oct. 13, 2006 PEOPLE go to Israel for different reasons. Some go to see historic sites, some go for religious reasons, some go to visit their children and grandchildren. Larry Baras goes to Israel to build a professional baseball league. Baras, founder and operator of a specialty baking […]
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Baseballinternational.com has a separate link for titles about baseball in far away lands. While by no means complete — most of the books are less than five years old — there are a nice bunch of volumes about the game as played in Japan and Asia, Italy, Australia, Cuba and Latin America, and the Caribbean. […]
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by Kerry Yo Nakagawa. Rudi Publishing, 2002. Since Horace Wilson, an American schoolteacher in the “land of the rising sun,” introduced baseball to his students in 1872, Japanese have been mad for the game. The author, a writer, actor, filmmaker, and director of the Nisei Baseball Research Project, chronicles this fervor. Like their European counterparts, […]
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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
May 22, 2010
SFReeper critiques Emma Span’s look at the game from the distaff side and Jason Turbow’s do’s and dont’s. If the British read Moneyball, do they have to convert it into pounds or euros? The AV Club conducted this Q&A with Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair & Plastic Grass. You gotta wonder if he grew […]
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