Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
General: Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. The passing of the former ballplayer puts this one on top. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The closing of the ballpark makes this subgenre hot. But why don’t they wait until the final season is over, which would complete […]
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In a May 3 piece for The Wall Street Journal, Dawidoff — author The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and, the just-released The Crowd Sounds Happy — lists his top choices in the genre: You Know Me, Al by Ring Lardner The Natural, by Bernard Malamud The Universal Baseball Association, […]
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From AskMen.com, five obscure facts (well, perhaps for those who visit such Web sites, rather than read about the game): Early MLB teams were not distinguished by their jerseys Jackie Robinson was not the MLB’s first black player The MLB has a long tradition of cheating The MLB’s rules used to allow one side of […]
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Alex Belth appends his theme of essential baseball books, with lists from Richard Sandomir, The New York Times‘ sports media columnist and Roger Kahn, along with a slew of comments.
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The Bullpen section of Baseball-Reference.com (“Baseball’s collaborative encyclopedia”) published this list of 130 books (with links) that deal with baseball. Not sure of the criteria or why that specific number, but it’s there for the browsing.
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Several bloggers have weighed in on the Bronx Banter’s theme of essential (not greatest or best) baseball books, including: Brew Crew Ball Steve Rubio’s Online Life Baseball Mud Nothing earth-shattering here, just some more lists, FYI.
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The Phillies catcher/author has the best-selling baseball book at the moment, according to Amazon.com. The only other baseball title is Cubs Forever: Memories from the Men Who Lived Them, by Bob Vorwald (not bad considering it’s not even in stock yet.) Coste’s auto-bio, The 33-Year-Old Rookieis ranked #1 in biographies & memoirs/biographies/baseball; History/United States/State & […]
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This list appeared on the SABR listserve (?). Thanks, to Greg Spira for compiling this extensive collection. Some of these review may be duplicate of what I’ve already posted and I have made no changes in style or contents to his list. “Links to many, many reviews (not features) of new baseball books reviews […]
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From the blog A Special Way of Being Afraid, this list, which, as might be expected, is heavy on historical material. Murphy’s romance with baseball books includes: The Glory of Their Times Touching Second, by Johnny Evers Ty Cobb, by Al Stump The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball by Jonathan Fraser Light The Ultimate Baseball Book […]
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The Mets have had a relatively short history, not even 50 years yet, and much of their lore is based on failure rather than success. Except for a handful, the players for the first few years of the team’s existence were nothing to write home about. So when authors like Matthew Silverman toss out names […]
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This overview of lots of new titles by Bruce Dancis leads off with books about the scandals of the game, new and old, and includes: Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball’s Most Intimidating Pitcher Asterisk: Home Runs, Steroids, and the Rush to Judgment Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle To Save Baseball (surprisingly […]
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I came across this 12-year-old article from Marylaine.com on baseball novels. It’s no less relevant now, and maybe, with the hindsight of time, can offer a few suggestions that might have gone unconsidered.
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Repeating yesterday’s movie theme, here are two more lists about the top baseball flickers. The SCNow web site, serving several communities in South Carolina, posted this column by Mark Haselden in which he picks some of the classics, but adds The Sandlot and the 1994 version of Angels in the Outfield. Meanwhile, StLtoday offers this […]
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SI.com has a slide show of their fantasy baseball team comprised of movie characters. Nice idea, until you see some of their selections: Jack Elliot (Tom Sellick), in Mr. Baseball Eppy Calvin “Nuke” Laloosh (Tim Robbins), Bull Durham Dotty Hinson (Geena Davis), A League of Their Own Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor), Brewster’s Millions Amanda Wurlizter […]
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Granted this list of books about the Orioles comes from the University of Baltimore’s Langsdale Library, but it’s still a source for further information.
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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 blog 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
* Catching up, Part 1
April 8, 2008
There’s a lot of material that’s fallen by the wayside as I try to keep this blog fresh with the latest in baseball book publishing information. But in the words of the revered philosopher, Regis Philbin, “I’m only one man!” So I’m using this space to try to catch up. Some of the items might […]
Tagged as: Audio, baseball books, Bobble heads, collections, hobbies, Memorabilia, Nostalgia, Sportswriting
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