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, August 21. Title Rank General Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 1 Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 3 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, […]
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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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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 7. 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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Richard J. Tofel, author of A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939, published his choices for the five best baseball business books in the July 31 Wall Street Journal. The list includes, in bis order: As They See ‘Em, by Bruce Weber Past Time, by Jules Tygiel Moneyball, by Michael Lewis […]
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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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I participated in a survey of the “best” baseball fiction and non-fiction books from the Hardball Cooperative site. It was an honor to be included with such learned contributors. Of course, one person’s meat is another’s poison; the comment’s made to the Baseball Think Factory, to which a link was posted, indicates that quite clearly. […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 3. 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 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the […]
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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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books on baseball, that is, at least according to this blogger. The list includes: The Kid from Tomkinsville The Southpaw The Glory of Their Times Stealing Home The Bill James Historical Abstract
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 1 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, Weber 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 Moneyball: The Art of Winning […]
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I may have done this one before, but I came across it in my Google alerts, so here we go. Tim Morris of the University of Texas at Arlington, has compiled this massive list: This Guide to Baseball Fiction is a combination of bibliographic checklist and evaluative critical guide to over 1,000 works of baseball […]
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BA also puts out an annual list of baseball titles.
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See previous entry. I am reproducing the Herculean effort of our friend Greg Spira of 2009 titles, as posted on the SABR list-serve today. There are almost 140 titles here (see his caveats) so you will all forgive me if I don’t follow my usual formatting style. The only knock is that he does not […]
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Brought to you by the folks who produce the Sports-reference sites. The site basically consists of links to lists category. There’s no commentary here, but it’s still a fair source for basic publishers’ info. That said, the link to new releases is woefully inadequate, listing only 46 books and DVDs at this point, with a […]
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In the trivia department, Chicago White Sox teammates Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back homers for the 300th round-tripper of their careers. Hitting No. 300 in the same game would have been impressive enough, but back to back? Brings to mind Griffeys Sr. and Jr. pulling the same stunt on Sept.4, 1990. Too bad […]
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The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime, by Paul Dickson (Collins, 2009) It’s Passover time, so forgive me a comment relating to the traditions of the holiday: There’s a song we sing at the Seder called “Dayenu.” It means, basically, “it would have been enough.” If God had done A and […]
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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
* TWIBB — Aug. 28
August 28, 2009
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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