Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, July 3. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the […]
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Paul Dickson, editor of the popular Dickson Baseball Dictionary, published this double review of Negro L:eague baseball in The Washington Times.
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The Christian Science Monitor published this review of Larry Tye’s well-received biography of the Negro League legend. Upshot: It’s about time somebody wrote a good biography of Satchel Paige, the great baseball pitcher, personality, showman, and entrepreneur. In Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, journalist Larry Tye has done just that. Likewise, […]
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The New York Times’ Janet Maslin published this review of Larry Tye’s new biography of the great Paige. Upshot: “All the African-American luminaries had climbed to the top of their fields, but none did it with Satchel’s over-the-top style and charm,” Mr. Tye claims. “And none of the others had been seen up close by […]
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From Book Nut.
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Hall of Fame, American Library Association Partner To Tell Story of Pride and Passion Traveling Exhibit Dedicated To African-American Baseball Experience Making Its Way To 50 Libraries Around America (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the American Library Association have teamed up to help tell the story of the […]
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From our friend Greg Spira comes this link to LibraryJournal.com’s annual baseball feature. Among the usual share of biographies and memoirs, histories, and social commentaries are such themes as: Yet another biography about Yogi Berra, this one by homonymic author Allen Barra, and one on Walter O’Malley by Michael D’Antonio Ira Berkow’s bio of Lou […]
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Spitball Magazine has announced that We Are the Ship is the 2008 winner of its Casey Award as best baseball book of the year. Nelson will receive the award the 26th annual CASEY Awards Banquet on March 8, at Sawyer Point in downtown Cincinnati. In an email to the Bookshelf, Nelson wrote: I’m quite honored […]
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Spitball Magazine just announced the finalists for the 2008 CASEY Award, Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies, by William Kashatus (University of Pennsylvania Press) Neil Leifer: Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, by Neil Leifer (Taschen) (See here for samples.) Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take […]
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SchooLibraryJournal.com published this article commenting on several Negro League titles, including: Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball James Sturm and Rich Tommaso’s Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow Robert Burleigh’s Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson Against the Odds
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From the Muscatine (Iowa) Journal. Lomax, an associate professor of sports history at the University of Iowa, is the author of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901. His second book, Sports and the Racial Divide, is due in August.
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The Negro League star, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000, was born this date in 1901. The Amazon Report on Turkey Stearnes: Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
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A feature piece on Kadir Nelson’s new children’s book on the Negro Leagues, as well as a slide-show of the author’s paintings of some of the legends of the era.
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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
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June 19, 2009
This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 1 As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, Weber 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 Moneyball: The Art of Winning […]
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