Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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We finally got rid of football. Now if we can just get past these pesky Olympics… Baseball items will be coming fast and furious in the weeks ahead. Joe Po’s sweet piece on Willie Mays, pursuant to Hirsh’s new book. Tom Verducci’s assessment of recent retirees Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine. The Twins as the […]
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I say “semi” because I’m promoting the work of others as well. Just received a copy of the Yankees 2010 Annual from Maple Street Press. Part yearbook, part magazine, it features the usual player profiles, as well as some minor league and historical background stuff. My articlem, “Koshering the Yankees,” about Yankees Fantasy Camp, an […]
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The scant baseball items include: Grow your own…ballpark, that is. Actually, that’s it, but last week (Jan. 18) there were these items: Joe Posnanski on Mark McGwire Joe Sheehan on Randy Johnson Ben Reiter on Tim Lincecum And, what the heck, on Jan. 11: What? No, that can’t be right…Nothing about Andre Dawson??
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I don’t know what else there is to say about McGwire. Some, like Joe Posnanski (twice) and my literary hero, Tony Kornheiser, are more forgiving. Mr. Tony spoke about the “confessions of Mark McGwire” on both Pardon the Interruption and his eponymous radio program on ESPN 980 in DC. Others, like Ken Rosenthal, are much […]
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Semi-shameless self promotion: this assessment was written by James Bailey and yours truly. Titles include: Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend Catcher: How the Man behind the Plate […]
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Sorry, almost done with this catching up business, so bear with me. For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s my take on the November session of Yankees Fantasy Camp in the Dec, 17 issue of the New Jersey Jewish News. In addition, My teammate Ira Jaskoll wrote this piece for the Jewish Magazine […]
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Congratulations to Derek Jeter, SI‘s Sportsman of the Year. I wonder which award is more prestigious: the AL MVP or this? On the one hand, the former is baseball recognizing its own. On the other hand, the latter encompasses all sports. Is there some sort of official award/plaque/trophy for that? Tom Verducci does the honors […]
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Unless it’s the one in the Nov. 16 issue of New York magazine, which features a theme of “Baseball Hall-of-Fame Anagrams.” Sorry, but it doesn’t appear to be on their website.
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Surprise, surprise: The Yankees. NOT. Although Tom Verducci did write the story about the Yankees’ latest championship, as well as this sidebar on the upcoming hot stove league. And in a case of raining on the Yankees’ parade, this week’s “Sign of the Apocalypse”: New York City office workers who ran out of confetti during […]
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Baseball takes center stage for perhaps the last time in 2009. Derek Jeter makes an appropriate cover boy for Tom Verducci’s World Series story. This makes the 11th time Jeter has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Four of those have come for the post-season, including three World Series covers. Here’s a link to […]
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Who could have conceived of a time where the Nov. 2 issue wouldn’t include any information about World Series games that had already been played. Anyway, this week features Ryan Howard on the cover in a Series preview by Lee Jenkins. Also: Tom Verducci on Alex Rodriguez’s resurrgence in the post-season. Joe Sheehan’s prediction
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Basketball preview this week, so not much in the way of baseball. Basically it’s Joe Posnanski on the Yankees.
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Up on the roof…well, the attic actually. I was going through some stuff, trying to decide whether it’s time to lighten the load, so to speak. I hve a bunch of Sports, Inside Sports, Baseball Quarterly, and other assorted titles, long gone from this mortal coil. This one caught my eye: The July 1986 issue […]
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Tom Verducci writes about the chances the Dodgers and Angels face each other in the Fall Classic. Lee Jenkins on Bobby Abreau, who had a major impact on his Angels teammates. And Phil Taylor’s column on the dyspepsia of being a Nationals fan.
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Tom Verducci on the how the return of Pedro Martinez helped propel the Phillies into the postseason. Joe Sheehan on the Cardinals-Dodgers match-up. The Twins-Tigers hadn’t played at the time SI went to press, which explains this piece by Sheehan.
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So I went back to the baseball publications that came out prior to opening day. These included only national publications (i.e., no newspapers that might show favoritism for the home team): Baseball America, USA Today Sports Weekly, Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Athlon, Lindy’s, The Sporting News (which took over my old pals, Street 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
Semi-shameless self-promotion
February 14, 2010
I say “semi” because I’m promoting the work of others as well. Just received a copy of the Yankees 2010 Annual from Maple Street Press. Part yearbook, part magazine, it features the usual player profiles, as well as some minor league and historical background stuff. My articlem, “Koshering the Yankees,” about Yankees Fantasy Camp, an […]
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