Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
“Any rebroadcast, reproduction [emphasis added] or other use of this game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited.” Or not: “Library of Congress Buys Audio Archive“: The library will announce the purchase of [emphasis added] the audio recordings on Wednesday. The archive belonged to John Miley, an 80-year-old retired businessman in […]
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Baseball and The Simpsons. In the latest episode, Grandpa Abe serves as a guinea pig for a drug that will turn him from grumpy to glad. In order to test the product’s viability, the phrama testers experiment with several variations until the seemingly find the right one. The head of the company wants to make […]
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but were afraid to ask. “WAR! Huh! Good God, y’all, what is it good for?” (Bet you didn’t know R&B singer Edwin Starr was a stat-head.)
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Heading over the the Yogi Berra Museum later to see what interesting items they have to offer. If they have this at a decent price, I just might indulge: For some reason, even though I didn’t start really collecting until the 1967 set, the ’65 is one of my favorites. The sale is scheduled from […]
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First that, now this? (You have to look at the ad closely.) Good to see the person who sewed the letters on the uniform was able to find employment again.
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And not just because Charlie Sheen is associated with it. Why do the folks in Hollywood think it’s such a great idea to bring back a franchise several years — in some cases decades — later? Case in point: Sheen has expressed interest in revisiting the Major League franchise, resurrecting Rickey “Wild Thing” Vaughn. He […]
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This interesting concept comes from ehow.com. On second thought, there’s really no reason a regular fan with a room to spare couldn’t follow these instructions to create a mini-museum at home.
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Brooklyn Cyclones give Aguilera second shot at National anthem? From the AP item: Cyclones general manager Steve Cohen [Editor’s Note: MOT?] said in a statement that “when a player makes a mistake, they usually don’t get a shot at redemption, but with a singer, that’s a different story.” Speaking of the Cyclones, they were included […]
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George Edward Taylor played two seasons in the Majors — seven years apart — in the late 1800s.
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Jan. 14, 1:37 p.m. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Baseball Prospectus 2011 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 3 Baseball Forecaster 2011, by Ron Shandler 4 […]
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A couple of days ago I posted an entry about some unique baseball books. Since then I’ve exchanged a few e-mails with Erin Zamrzla, creator of these unique mini-notebooks. I asked how she chose the three relatively obscure players — Sibby Sisti, Andy Seminick, and Don Kolloway — for her project. “I ended up using […]
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This enterprising entrepreneur combines baseball cards with plank pages to create a new kind of baseball book. There are three versions, one for Andy Seminick, one for Don Kolloway, and the third for Sibby Sisti. Why these guys? I’ll ask the artist, “erinzam,” from San Diego. Maybe they just had a bunch of these particular […]
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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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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
