Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
It’s all right, I’m half-Quebecer on my mum’s side. Anyway the Getting Blanked blog, a Blue Jays-centric site, is starting up a Baseball Book Club! The first meeting — which will discuss Michael Lewi’s Moneyball, will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, at Opera Bob’s. Dustin Parkes, proprietor of Getting Blanked, writes: […]
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(With apologies to the Beatles). We all know how we’d like others to change. SI‘s Cliff Corcoran has his lists as well. One for the American League teams, another for the National.
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No literary birthdays today, but did you know that before he was a famous humanitarian Albert Schweitzer played for the St. Louis Browns? “Cheese,” as he was called by his friends, was born this date in 1882. I’ll go you one better: Many people complain that Gary Cooper was a lousy athlete and a poor […]
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Actually, with the way it works, the Dec. 20 issue was last week (Tim Linceum graces the Dec. 27 year-end issue)), but there’s a goodly amount of baseball items in “The Year in Sports Media” issue that I didn’t want it to go by unremarked upon. The robots are taking over! Steve Rushin writes about […]
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I’m 95 percent certain this Tampa-based reporter did a piece from Yankees Fantasy camp when I was down there last year (wish I could find that video). It seems hypocritical of me to say another journalist shouldn’t be allowed to do a first-person story, but he makes the rest of us look bad, dressed in […]
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Don’t look for it on you calendar, but today is Baseball Blogger Alliance Day. BBA is a group of bloggers — some 230 or so — who banded together, as it were, in 2009. There’s at least one blogger per Major league team except, inexplicably, the Atlanta Braves (although that might have changed by the […]
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This seems very cool.
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for a little while, at least: Gingerbread house Fenway Park.
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When I play ball, most of my teammates call me Ronnie. When I was in college, they called me Kap, a take-off on my name coupled with the Kangolish-type of headgear I always wore (at camp in the Laurentian Mountains, they called me Casquette for the same reason). When I look for those literary birthday […]
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And who knows, sometime soon, one just might. The Beckett Blog composed this series of fake Derek Jeter cards, fantasizing about what he would look like in the uniform of all 30 teams. Some look pretty good, but the prospect of others (Jeter as a Met?) are a bit disconcerting.
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As in extra-terrestrials. In his new book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race, Jon Stewart hopes to explain/justify to anyone (thing?) out there in the vast universe what life was (!) like on our little blue planet. Earth considers science, religion, politics, and pop […]
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but I don’t go making a video about it.
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(Because I keep LPs on my bookshelf.) How cool would it be if the Giants’ closer actually used “Little Surfer Girl” as his march-in music?
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Nuns selling rare Honus Wagner card [T]he Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame… are auctioning off the card, which despite its poor condition is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000. The proceeds will go to their ministries in 35 countries around the world.
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Well, the Mets were official eliminated from the pennant race (in April) last night. So what’s the connection with one of the classic film gems of all time? Jock Whitney played a major role in bringing GWTW to the screen. According to IMDB.com, Whitney was the major investor in Selznick International Inc., putting up $870,000 […]
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Now that Derek Jeter’s behavior has been the subject of several ethical ramblings — including Bruce Weber, author of As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires — the gloves are off (and the caps are on). Without their beloved captain and role model towing the line, the rules of propriety […]
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There are times when I see a book at Barnes and Nobel or some other chain store and shake my head. How on earth did this get published. The latest to fall into this category is Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball by Gar Ryness. It’s just like it sounds: a grown man […]
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(Because you can put either a small TV or an American flag on your bookshelf.)
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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
Because you could put this on your bookshelf…if your name was Steinbrenner
September 23, 2010
They probably have humongous bookshelves in their palatial estates. Wouldn’t you know, the Steinbrenners can never do anything simple. The latest deal: is the monument honoring the late King George too big? Many fans have a problem with tributes to players like Mantle and DiMaggio This big while the new one saluting GS monument is […]
Tagged as: George Steinbrenner, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Monument Park, Yankee Stadium
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