Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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With these tough economic times, I wonder if there’s been a run of card collectors trying to unload their little pieces of cardboard. For those of you interested, here’s a piece describing the appraisal process and another on the determination of “book value.”
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t […]
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The Mets are hosting an on-line auction. The cheapest item as of this writing is a $50 stadium brick; the most expensive, is the letter “S” off the Shea Stadium sign (the “Stadium” S, not the “Shea” S) for $2,500. The auction ends October 31.
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And a bargain at less than $12,000.
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Tom Shroder of The Washington Post contributed this sweet, nostalgic piece about discoerving a long-forgotten piece of his childhood. As I lectured my mom on this subject recently, arguing for ruthlessness in the disposition of boxes filled with old stuff, I came across a little cardboard notebook. Labeled “Official Baseball Score Book,” it opened to […]
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From collectorsquest.com, this small group of old baseball-related…stuff.
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The Los Angeles Central Library is hosting “Play Ball! Images of Dodger Blue, 1958-1988,” a photographic exhibition, through November 9. The curator for the exhibit is David Davis, a contributing writer to Los Angeles Magazine and The Times’ Book Review. “Since 1958, the Dodgers have been a vital, integral part of the social fabric of […]
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This article from the Miami Herald heralds the Baseball Reliquary, a California-based organization “that trumpets itself as a ‘traveling museum of baseball curiosities and wonderments.”
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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 […]
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According to an item in the Feb. 25 issue of Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, Hunt Auctions will include “more than 140 items” from the estate of the late Bowie Kuhn. The former commissioner’s collection includes several rings from baseball events, autographed balls, contracts, and various awards. The lot is expected to go for […]
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Upper Deck is opening a new store tomorrow (Feb. 22) in Huntington Beach. There’s even a 25%-off coupon! And Steve Garvey will be on hand on Feb. 23 to sign autographs. (Luke Walton will be there for the Grand Opening, but he’s just a basketball player.)
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Interesting piece on the 2008 set from the japanesebaseballcards blog.
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If you can’t come to the Hall of Fame, let the Hall of Fame come to you. That’s the philosophy behind the traveling exhibit, Baseball As America, which features lots of memorabilia culled from the Cooperstown institution which gets a run at the National Convention Center in Philadelphia through May 11 I attended the collection […]
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Execrpted from an entry on darkmattermag.com: “When I was young, I collected autographs of active and retired baseball players using a book that actually listed their home addresses. This book even had addresses for old umpires, including the umpire depicted in the center of Rockwell’s painting, “Beans” Reardon. So, I have a small reproduction of […]
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From “The Infield Dirt” column on Sports Collector Digest‘s Web site, an interesting suggestion on a new arts and crafts project. I wrote a note to the writer, T.S. O’Connell, asking for a picture of the item.
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Since we’re heading into awards season, this seemed appropriate:The Gummies, picking the best and worst baseball card-related items of the year. Unfortunately, there’s no explanation for the picks, nor a list of the other nominees that were in the running.
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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 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
* What to give…
December 1, 2008
The Chicago Sun-Times recently offered a list of gift books, as comprised by some of its writers. Of the seven suggestions, Two baseball titles made the grade: Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos and Memorabilia, by Julia Ruth Stevens and Bill Gilbert; and Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The […]
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