Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the category archives:
Ever wonder what an MLB player does with his time? Hunter Pence answers that for you in the current edition. Other baseball items include: Who, if anyone, will be the next 300-game winner? Bill Simmons on baseball’s real golden age “6 things you should know about being a man of many positions” by Mark Teahen […]
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The NBA finals get the cover story, deservedly so. Baseball items this week include Jon Heyman on the mid-season trade market and Mark Bechtel’s profile on Phillies’ skipper Charlie Manuel.
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Baseball items include: Lee Jenkin’s roundtable interview with several pitchers who were selected as the No. 1 pick in previous baseball drafts, including Tim Belcher, Andy Benes, Floyd Bannister, and Bobby Witt, as well as Lew Krausse and Paul Pettit, from the pre-draft days. Haven’t read it myself yet, but it would be interesting to […]
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First Sports Illustrated crowned cover boy and teen phenom Bryce Harper (photo left) as “the most exciting prospect since LeBron.” Now is ESPN the Magazine‘s turn. The bi-weekly publication picked pitcher Stephen Strasburg as the feature in it’s cover story, “MLB Draft: The battle over baseball’s LeBron.” Speaking of ESPN the Magazine, the powers that […]
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Didn’t anyone tell Bryce Harper about the SI Cover Curse? I mean, I know he’s only 16, but even so… Shame on Tom Verducci and the editors for perpetrating this instance of child abuse as they highlight “Baseball’s LeBron.” Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discussed the situation on yesterday’s Pardon the Interruption, warning the young […]
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The main baseball article is John Heyman’s look at the recent late-inning heroics by the Yankees. Other items include a sidebar on the Tigers’ resurgence and Albert Chen’s recounting of Harvey Haddix’s non-perfect game just 50 years ago.
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Didn’t see a stand-alone baseball issue like I did last year, but here are some baseball items from Forbes.com on the state of the game, who the big players are (business-wise), and other fun topics.
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The main baseball story is a feature by Tom Verducci on Randy Johnson. Wish they’d post the pictures with the articles.
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The May/June issue of ForeWord Magazine, a publication that specializes in small and university presses, carries my feature on nine 2009 baseball titles, including: Under the March Sun: The Story of Spring Training High-Flying Birds: The 1942 St. Louis Cardinal Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia Yankee Colors: The Glory Years […]
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Take a guess at the cover story. If you picked anything other than Manny Ramirez — such as the exciting marquee matchup between the Capitals and Penguins, or Cleveland flying through the NBA playoffs — you’d be WRONG. (Please God, don’t let Selena Roberts get ahold of this one.) Tom Verducci gets cover-story honors with […]
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The main baseball pieces considered the 2005 draft, and, of course, A-Rod. But this item on Jack (Lucky) Lohrke was particularly interesting in a macabre sort of way. SI also did a piece on him 15 years ago. Lohrke died last week at age 85. I guess his luck finally ran out.
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Every issue of the classic publication is available through Google books. The first issue: July 1945. Cover price: 15 cents. Tag line: “64 Pages — and Every Word Baseball!” Thanks to John Zajc and Rob Neyer for the item.
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The cover story of the May 4 issue features Joe Posnanski’s profile of Royals’ ace Zack Greinke. Other baseball items include a look at the Dodgers; high school no-hitters and how they do (or don’t) predict pro success; a little girl who was perfect against the boys; and an essay wondering if baseball fans shouldn’t […]
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Congratulations to Paul Dickson, author of the eponymous Baseball Dictionary, which was cited in William Safire’s “On Language” column in the April 19 issue of the Sunday Times Magazine. Safire devoted his weekly offering to Baseball Lingo. It’s really nothing you haven’t seen over and over again: how someone at work pinch hits for a […]
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Baseball items include: The evolution of MLB salaries: “Opening Day payroll this year—$2,655,395,194 total for the 30 clubs—was $31 million less than in 2008, a 1.2% drop and only the third year-to-year decline since the 1994 strike.” Bill Jenkins’ profile of Nick Adenhart What’s up with Cliff Lee, last year’s AL Cy Young winner? “Hit […]
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After all Patriot’s Day is coming up (April 19)… This month’s issue of Boston magazine features 2008 Rookie of the Year Dustin Pedroia as the cover boy. “The Obsessive’s Guide to the Sox,” proclaims the banner. Among the articles: “67 Things You didn’t Know About the Local Nine.” Why 67? Something to do with the […]
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The cover story features the NCAA hoops tourney, as could be expected, but from kids at what might be the start of a pro career, the only baseball story in the April 13 issue looks at Jamie Moyer, at the other end of the spectrum.
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One of the major complaints from fans and (especially) non-fans is that the games take too long. Don’t look at it as a lot of down time; instead perceive it as a chance to catch up on your reading. That’s why I love compilations such as those published by The Washington Post‘s Thomas Boswell 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
* Bits and Pieces
June 17, 2009
Time to play a little catch-up: From Pressboxonline.com, a Baltimore-sports oriented site, a review of Bert Randolph Sugar’s new coffee table book about the Hall of Fame. “[The author] left nothing out and I can’t think of a better way to educate those whom are grasping for a better understanding of baseball’s history than to […]
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