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Throwback Thursday, March 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 · 0 comments

Looks my complaining hasn’t tailed off over the last decade. I understand that space is limited in book review sections, but when there’s a special “roundup” of sports books and no baseball titles are included, that’s something I can’t ignore. FYI, the “Y U No Love” meme was very popular back in the day. Ask your […]

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See you in the funny papers

September 4, 2025

I must be getting old. As I was preparing a post about Japanese baseball culture, I referred to the trip I took to that country earlier this year. It was a thrilling two-week experience which included the opportunity to acquire and visit a lot of baseball. But lo and behold, when I went to link […]

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The Bookshelf Conversations #194: Robbie Hart

April 15, 2025

If you’d asked me a few years ago about my favorite teams, I definitely would have said the Mets, followed by the Montreal Expos. But now? It just might be the reverse, since I’ve been living in the past lately. I spent many a happy summer in Montreal, where the maternal side of my family […]

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The Bookshelf Conversation #165: Chris Donnelly

May 2, 2023

This time, it’s personal. I am the poster boy for the “long suffering Mets fan.” I recall being on vacation with my wife, Faith, at the end of 1991 and hearing about the acquisitions they were pulling off, big stars like Eddie Murray, Bobby Bonilla, and Bret Saberhagen, among others, as well as a new […]

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The Things We Keep: Lou Limmer’s Baseball Card

April 14, 2021

Several years ago, when I was working for the New Jersey Jewish News, I was charged with handling just about all of the sports related stories. You probably know that there haven’t been a whole of lot Jewish players among the nearly 20,000 players in the Major Leagues (19,940 as of this writing so that […]

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Because you can put all sorts of legal documents on your bookshelf…

July 29, 2011

(The following is a re-blog of an item that appears on my other site, Kaplan’s Korner, regarding recent allegations made by Peter J. Nash in a New York Post story against the late Barry Halper, one of the biggest names in the sports memorabilia world.) I heard about this issue on WINS on Monday while […]

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Shameless self-promotion, part two: Now it can be told

June 6, 2011 · 5 comments

Remember how when you were a kid in school you didn’t like to talk about your tests right after you took them because you were afraid you’d jinx it? Well, that’s the way I felt about this bit of news. But now that it’s official… I have just signed a contract for my first book. […]

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That’s not cricket. Oh wait, it is.

March 18, 2010

So one of the things I can cross off my to-do list: play cricket. For those unfamiliar with the game, here’s a brief into: Don’t ask me why, but the sport has always fascinated me and one of the activities at the Ritz Carlton was a mid-day game, so I just had to give it […]

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