Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Actually, I suppose this is last week’s news, but since there are several baseball items worth noting, here goes: An item about Sen. Jim Bunning, who displays the same bulldog tenacity on Capitol Hill as he did the pitching hill. A profile on Orioles catcher Mark Wieters by Tom Verducci and a sidebar on the […]
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Lee Jenkins’ profile of the Mets’ David Wright is the only baseball piece in this issue, which concentrates on post-Olympics stories.
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The Olympics are over. So is football. Pro hockey and basketball are winding down and it’s a wee bit early for March Madness. So baseball’s back. Tim Marchman praises “the G.M.’s who made the savviest moves of the off-season” Tom Verducci on the early buzz in spring training camp Albert Chen on run prevention as […]
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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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In spring a (nerdy) young man’s heart turns to thoughts of the new batch of baseball annuals. As I’ve written in the past, these publications no longer carry the weight they did when I was a kid, growing up in the pre-Internet days. Street & Smith was basically the only game in town, and I […]
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This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Feb. 19. Title Rank General Baseball Prospectus 2010 1 Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 2 Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects 3 2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball […]
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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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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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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
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March 18, 2010
Had to get a tire replaced this morning. While sitting in the waiting room, I picked up a recent copy of The Sporting News which carried feature about the questionnaires the publication would hand out to players each year in preparation for the defunct Baseball Register. This article included reproductions of the forms from Willie […]
Tagged as: baseball and ethnicity, The Sporting News
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