Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Sorry, give me a minute here. The Mets just lost their game with the Yankees when Luis Castillo dropped a two-out POP UP that allowed two runs to score. TWO HANDS, dammit!! Anyway, my review of several books that encompass the Yankees and Mets during interleague weekend appear on the latest posting of Bookreporter.com. Titles […]
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Prince and and Jason Fry host the entertaining and thought-provoking Mets’ blog, Faith and Fear in Flushing. He compiled many of the sentiments from the blog, added a lot of personal insight, and published a like-titled book. Be;ieve it or not, this isn’t even his day job: Prince is a writer, editor, and communications consultant whose […]
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I may have done this one before, but I came across it in my Google alerts, so here we go. Tim Morris of the University of Texas at Arlington, has compiled this massive list: This Guide to Baseball Fiction is a combination of bibliographic checklist and evaluative critical guide to over 1,000 works of baseball […]
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From Mark Armour of SABR: I would like to announce the publication of the new book “Lefty, Double-X, and The Kid: The 1939 Red Sox, a Team in Transition,” edited by Bill Nowlin and published recently by Rounder Books. (Anticipating the usual question, “Gee Mark, why did you decide to do a book about a […]
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The back page of The New York Times Book Review features a full page advertisement from Bauman Rare Books. I usually don’t pay attention because as much as I lvoe ’em, they’re out of my league, to borrow from a famous title. But a photo of Joe DiMaggio caught my eye and sure enough there […]
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SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. Ritter was the author/editor of The Glory of Their Times, a seminal book of baseball oral history. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era (McFarland). The three other Finalists for the […]
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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain […]
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What is it with all these confessions? First Jane Heller’s Confessions of a She-Fan, now this? Forgive my cynicism, but was this book really penned by the actor herself? So it would seem, since there’s no collaborative reference on the cover. Milano supposedly writes a blog on MLB.com (she also sells a line of baseball-themed […]
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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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In light of Joe Torre’s new book, the Yankees are considering a non-disparagement clause in their employee contracts. According to a Newsday article by Wallace Mathews, “The Yankees are said to feel betrayed by Torre’s book, which has been interpreted as critical of some players, most notably Alex Rodriguez, and inaccurate in its recounting of […]
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Kirk Radomski, one of the leading figures in the Mitchell hearings on PED and baseball, will publish a book on his role in the whole mess. Bases Loaded (Hudson Street Press, an imprint of Penguin Books) is due to hit the stores next week. According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times: The 256-page […]
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Been receiving some publisher’s catalogs recently. Here are a few 2009 titles to look forward to: >> As mentioned previously, Joe Torre and Tom Verducci have collaborated on the manager’s autobio, coming next month from Random House. >> Bloomsbury will release a behind-the-scenes look at the machinations of baseball’s Valhalla in Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, […]
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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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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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It used to be you had to wait until the following year to read about previous season. But now, thanks to all kinds of new technologies, it’s almost instantaneous. Baseball Insider, a special issue of Sports Weekly, does a great job of recapturing the excitement of the 2008 season while examining the strengths and weaknesses […]
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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
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May 5, 2009
Loathe as I am to get dirty with the A-Rod book, I feel I would be derelict in my “duty” to ignore it. So we’ll try to make this as painless as possible. I’m still waiting for my copy, so I’m just passing along what I’ve read. The news falls into three basic camps: those […]
Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Selena Roberts
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