Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
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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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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At the end of each year, many magazines, newspapers, and TV shows devote some space/time to celebrities who passed away during the previous 12 months. Sad to say, I’m at the age where the incidence of those baseball figures I recall from my youth are heading for that great dugout in the sky. Among those […]
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Every time the High Holidays come around, you can be sure you’ll be reading stories about Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, the two greatest Jewish baseball players of all time. Both refused to compromise their religious beliefs to play on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews — Edgar Guest even penned […]
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From Classicmovies.org, this list of more than 30 feature films from 1933-1992, including the usual suspects. There’s also a list of what are deemed as “lesser” films on the game, as well as a link to ReelBaseball.net, a site devoted to baseball films from 1989-2002, produced by Stephen C. Wood and J. David Pincus.
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To be honest, I don’t “get” poetry, for the most part. But poetry does go into books, and books do go onto my bookshelf so… From Poetryfoundation.org, Levi Stahl’s feature article on “Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi.” More baseball poems, courtesy of the Foundation: Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers, […]
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From the October issue of the always thought-provoking Lost Magazine, this essay on the lost innocence within a childhood memory, in this instance, the Cleveland Indians and the 1954 World Series. After watching the Mets go down in flames yesterday (go ahead, torch the stadium, too), and seeing all the distraught faces in the crowd […]
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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
