Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From the category archives:
From Dan Shaughnessy’s Oct. 30 column in The Boston Globe: The baseball games are over for another season. For the next four months, it’s all about parades, trophy tours, Christmas collectibles, quickie books (maybe Stephen King will share his e-mails again), and the 24/7 roster tweaking that will consume Theo Epstein and his minions in […]
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“Are the Rockies Really That Good, or Just Lucky?” This was the topic of The Numbers Guy column in the Oct. 23 Wall Street Journal. The take, according to Prof. Alan Reifman, host of The Hot Hand in Sports blog, and in the wake of their 21 of 22 success story, gave them the credit, […]
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According to the Play supplement of The New York Times, it’s “The Silly Season,” the time of year when speculation starts running rampant. Which free agents will move along to other clubs and which will stay? A-Rod announced today that he would probably not return to the Yankees, upstaging the Red Sox victory in the […]
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While trolling around to read British coverage of the Oct. 28 Giants-Dolphins game played in London, I came across this piece from the Telegraph. Newseum.org is a great source for how papers across the world handle their cover stories. Once in awhile, they have special “issues.” In honor of the Sox’ series victory, they’ve put […]
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So does this mean a new glut of books on the Sox? Or has that ship sailed, only worthy of the 2004 Championship? And let us not forget the Rockies, who make their first appearance in the Fall Classic. From Time magazine on Oct. 16 and Oct. 29. Interestingly, the Rocky Mountain […]
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According to The Oregonian (Oct. 21). The book game is not unlike the system baseball uses to cultivate new talent. It’s called the minor leagues, and the objective is to discover who can “play” at a higher level and who can’t. If you substitute the word “sell” for “play,” you have the fiction business in […]
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Don’t cry for Joe, Argentina. According to Rich Shapiro’s column in the Oct. 20, NY Daily News, the sky’s the limit for the ex-Yankee skipper: He gets paid up to $100,000 for each speech he delivers, and he could land a big contract as a sports broadcaster. He also has penned two books. A third […]
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With the Red Sox on the verge of elimination from the ALCS, from Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe, with emphasis added: If any team knows how to recover from an ALCS deficit, it’s the Red Sox. Boston wrote the book (which yielded approximately 26 books the following spring), beating the Yankees four straight times […]
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From the Oct. 11 New York Times, George Vescey’s “Red Sox in the Sky With Diamonds.” The original The “new and improved” version See the “who’s who” here
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Catching up… From the Manchester Union Leader, a sports column with reviews of New England-centric media, including Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball, by Dan Shaughnessy; High & Outside, a documentary on Bill “Spaceman” Lee; and Yastrzemski, by Carl Yastrzemski. From The London Independent (the unlikely source), this report on the […]
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<p>See the <a href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/2007/04/extra_extra_rea.html”>American League post</a> for an introduction to preview sections. Also note that individual papers might have removed their preview supplements/sections by the time you read this, especially now that the season has started.</p> <p><strong>National League East</strong></p> <ul><li><strong>Atlanta</strong>: Not much from the <a href=”https://www.ajc.com/braves/content/sports/braves/index.html#run”>Journal-Constitution</a>.</li> <li><strong>Florida (Miami)</strong>: <a href=”http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/baseball/”>A piece on Bonds’ legacy</a> in […]
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<p>Prior to opening day, many major market papers print a special preview of the season. This might be in the form of a separate section or just a few pages and often picks a specific theme, such as the influx of international players or the improvement in equipment, etc. Some nespapers with lower budgets take […]
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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
Financial Report: Covering Bonds
August 9, 2007
I was listening to the Mets game today and came in the middle of a comment from one of their announcers. All I got was the suspicion by someone that Hank Aaron might have received payment for his congratulatory message to Barry Bonds following the record breaking home run. Now, coming in the middle of […]
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