Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
For you movie buffs out there, from TheChive.com from a piece about The Shawshank Redemption: Andy and Red’s opening chat in the prison yard, in which Red is pitching a baseball, took 9 hours to shoot. Morgan Freeman pitched that baseball for the entire 9 hours without a single word of complaint. He showed up […]
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Or are there more and more athletes who are available for Facebook friendship and Twitter following? I just checked FB and saw A.J. Hinch, Joe Torre, and Dave Kingman under “People you may know…” The same applies for Twitter. Is anyone out there friends of these former ballplayers and are they the real deal? Seems […]
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(Kids, ask your parents/grandparents.) One of my pre-season amusements is to purchase baseball magazines and study their predictions, especially for who will get to the post-season. Somewhere on my other blog is an analysis of how they’ve done in seasons past. This year PunditTracker has done the work for me. The San Francisco Giants get […]
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There’s a saying in baseball that each game give you the opportunity to see something you’ve never seen before. This, courtesy of Michael Morse and the Washington Nationals, tops my list. How many of us as kids have pantomimed a grand-slam swing?
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As part of her birthday celebration, I took my wife to the Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange, NJ. She’d been asking to go for a long time and I pretty much have no patience for museums unless there’s a baseball or pop culture connection. She wanted to buy a refrigerator magnet as a memento […]
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Making my regular Amazon run for new baseball e-books, I came across The History of Baseball: The Definitive Learning Guide, published by an outfit called Course Hero and via Charles River Editors. There is no single author or group of authors credited with this title. I have no knowledge of Course Hero, nor have I […]
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A run scoring on a throw back from the catcher to the pitcher? Really?
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Remember this? Well, now there’s this:
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I was doing one of my regular searches to see what’s coming down the pike vis-a-vis baseball titles. One thing that stood out because the covers were very similar was a number of books that look like this. — The artwork looks like it comes right out of a generic stock photo site. The publishers […]
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Lots of things you could put on a bookshelf here. Baseball Nation’s Grant Brisbee has some suggestions for what to get the baseball-loving dad this year. Somehow I don’t the the catalog descriptions are taken from the source, MLB.com.
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Well, the first round of edits are done. Now it goes to line editing, for a more careful going over. I must say I was disappointed in myself when I got the files back and found so many typos. There are always going to be artistic conflicts over wording. Perhaps if this was a novel […]
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Here’s something you don’t see every day. Or ever. Are you paying attention, Zack Hample?
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A hamsa is the Jewish symbol for protection. Although I know my daughter doesn’t cotton to such gestures, I have her one before she started college. Here’s one “featuring” Hank Greenberg that appears in an on-line baseball magazine published by EephusLeague.com, wonderfully eclectic baseball entity for the artistically oddball items of the game. The navigation […]
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This screen cap comes from the trailer for Revolution, a new NBC science fiction program coming this fall. The show is set 15 years into the future, when electrical power has disappeared all over the planet. With the Cubs’ luck, they were probably leading in the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World […]
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but not for very long: Chocolate-covered strawberries. Yum.
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I have a handful of podcasts I listen to religiously, mostly on my way to work. It’s very ritualistic. I start each Monday with Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. From then on it’s Pardon the Interruption and Extra Hot Great Minis, a scaled down, one-topic version of Extra Hot Great, one of my favorite pop […]
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Among the other dumb things I collect are unusual bottles, either extremely regional in production or specifically baseball-related (Old Slugger, from the Cooperstown Brewing Company, for example). So it was with some amusement that I came across this item from Tauntr.com about what actual beers best represent the Major League ballclubs. For more baseball beer […]
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Not much on poetry (although I do a weekly Haiku for my newspaper), but every once in awhile I get the urge, especially experimenting with newly-discovered (for me) forms. So here’s my lament, which appears Bardball.net. It’s just a tad bit dated, given recent financial news, but what the heck… Reyes gone. Life goes […]
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Only the die-hards keep a scorecard during spring training games. There are so many substitutions, it’s hard to keep track. And it’s not only a standard ML roster of 25. You’ve also got the minor leaguers and invitees in camp. Which is why this is so honest and entertaining: Maybe it’s time for an update […]
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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
