Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
By Mike Shannon. The University of Alabama Press, 2007 The superstar player has always been considered an artist at his craft. Now it’s time for “real” artists to return the favor. And no one makes a more appropriate subject for such treatment than Willie Mays. This title is categorized as “Visual Arts/Sports History,” a very […]
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Edited by John Thorn, Collins, 2007. Don’t let the slim size of this elegant book fool you. Inspired by an exhibit sponsored by the Museum of the City of New York, with essays from some heavy hitters, The Glory Days recaptures a simpler time for baseball and the country. Ballplayers who lived in our neighborhoods, […]
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With the glut of books on baseball and steroids about to hit the bookstores, it would seem that writers have been aching for the Mitchell Report to come out. But as anyone who knows the publishing process will tell you, these projects are planned well in advance. Nevertheless, here’s another one, from the pen/typewriter/computer of […]
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I can’t remember which TV sports pundit said it, but it’s a good point: If the players Canseco has named so far haven’t taken PED, wouldn’t you think they’d have looked into civil suits? Well now it’s reported he’s going to name more athletes in his new book, Vindicated, which is due out in the […]
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The Spaceman turns 61 today. Books by or about Lee include: Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game, with Jim Prime (Triumph, 2007) The Wrong Stuff, with Richard Lally (Paperback edition by Three Rivers Press, 2006) Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond, with Richard Lally (Paperback […]
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McFarland Publishers has a unique place in the world of baseball literature. Known for their eclectic academic work in the arts, sciences, humanities, etc. they also specialize in topics that might be considered extremely narrow in interest within the national pastime. In fact, it seems comfortable to say that if it were not for this […]
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In response to a recent entry on artist Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship, Bob Kendrick of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, wanted readers of the Bookshelf to know that the museum will display a number of the original paintings used to illustrate the book in an exhibit beginning January 26, […]
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Clemens reports he will also appar on 60 Minutes after the New Year. One might be more likely to believe players had not Pete Rose been so adamant in his denials about his gambling on baseball games. The Amazon Report: The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens Rocket Man: The Roger Clemens Story
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My favorite pieces of mail, aside from the books I receive, are the catalogs announcing the books I will shortly receive. Like gardeners, I look forward to these colorful brochures that hold the promise of hours of enjoyment during the months to come. The University of Nebraska Press and its imprint, Bison Books, publish some […]
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Trying to clean up a lot of backlog here: *** From the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, this review of Dana Brands’ Mets Fan. *** Charles C. Alexander, author of biographies on Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, as well as a treatise on baseball during the Depression, recently released his studious account on Tris Speaker. […]
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Let’s face it. Baseball fans are well-intentioned. We go to the ballpark, buy a program or bring our own scorebook, but often we simply lose steam during the course of the game. If you’re there with friends and family, there are countless interruptions which make the diligent among us pester our neighbor to find out […]
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Another team-devoted Web site, BleedingCubbieBlue.com, offers these reviews of The Cubs, by Glenn Stout, and First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, edited by Michael B. Long. Stout’s latest is much more entertaining, a coffee table book just meant for holiday giving. First Classis more scholarly. I’m reading that one now (or […]
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From PhilliesNation.com, this announcement of The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit, written by Mitchell Nathanson, an associate professor at Villanova’s Law School.
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Perhaps jumping on the drug bandwagon/confessional, Otis Nixon, a former outfielder for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, is reportedly working on a book that describes his battle with drugs. *** Actress Laraine Day passed away Nov. 10. She was dubbed the “first lady of baseball” for her marriage to Leo Durocher, then the manager […]
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Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life, is working on a biography of American League MVP Alex Rodriguez. Last month, he told Publishers Weekly he expected A-Rod, who had declared free agency, to re-sign with his old team. So basically there were only two options: Either he would or he wouldn’t. Cramer […]
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The Canadian Press reported yesterday that “Joe Torre to recall his New York Yankees years in planned memoir.” The book, currently untitled, will be co-authored by Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci and will include Torre’s memories of the Yankees, with whom he won four World Series championships, and general thoughts on the game. Doubleday, an imprint […]
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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
Is it still funny, Joe?
December 12, 2007
Whatever happened to Joe Garagiola? or a time back in the late 1970s-early 80s he seemed to be all over the place: baseball color man, game show host, the Today Show. Where’s he been for the last 15-20 years? Working on a new book, it seems, a follow up to his successful Baseball is a […]
Tagged as: Baseball is a Funny Game, Joe Garagiola, Just Play Ball
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