Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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I was flattered to be the subject of this interview with Favorite PASTimes, a blog dedicated to historical fiction. Interesting to be on the opposite side of things.
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According to this story in The New York Times, letters from 19th-century baseball luminary Harry Wright was supposed to be put up at auction, butthe FBI thinks they may have been illegally obtained from the NY Public Library. I’m sure many of my readers remember letters when they were written with pen and ink, not […]
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This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, June 19. Title Rank General Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 1 The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci 2 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 3 The Science of Hitting, Williams 4 As They See […]
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Every issue of the classic publication is available through Google books. The first issue: July 1945. Cover price: 15 cents. Tag line: “64 Pages — and Every Word Baseball!” Thanks to John Zajc and Rob Neyer for the item.
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I may have done this one before, but I came across it in my Google alerts, so here we go. Tim Morris of the University of Texas at Arlington, has compiled this massive list: This Guide to Baseball Fiction is a combination of bibliographic checklist and evaluative critical guide to over 1,000 works of baseball […]
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See previous entry. I am reproducing the Herculean effort of our friend Greg Spira of 2009 titles, as posted on the SABR list-serve today. There are almost 140 titles here (see his caveats) so you will all forgive me if I don’t follow my usual formatting style. The only knock is that he does not […]
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Brought to you by the folks who produce the Sports-reference sites. The site basically consists of links to lists category. There’s no commentary here, but it’s still a fair source for basic publishers’ info. That said, the link to new releases is woefully inadequate, listing only 46 books and DVDs at this point, with a […]
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Congratulations to Paul Dickson, author of the eponymous Baseball Dictionary, which was cited in William Safire’s “On Language” column in the April 19 issue of the Sunday Times Magazine. Safire devoted his weekly offering to Baseball Lingo. It’s really nothing you haven’t seen over and over again: how someone at work pinch hits for a […]
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As Casey Stengel used to say. The Seattle Times posted this review of Paul Dickson’s latest edition, by syndicated Washington Post columnist David R. Broder, no less.
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At the risk of blowing my own horn, I wanted to say that my essays on Shawn Green, Hank Greenberg, and Sandy Koufax are included in the recently-released Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture, edited by Jack. R. Fischel with Susan M. Ortmann (Greenwood Press). I’m kvelling.
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SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. Ritter was the author/editor of The Glory of Their Times, a seminal book of baseball oral history. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era (McFarland). The three other Finalists for the […]
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From SABR’s Jim Charlton: Google Book Search has the full-text, searchable archive of New York Magazine, dating back to the 1960s; Jet Magazine, dating back to the 1950s; Ebony Magazine, dating back to the 1950s; Prevention Magazine, dating back to 2006; Popular Science Magazine, dating back to the 1870s; and Baseball Digest, dating back to […]
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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
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August 14, 2009
This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 14. Title Rank General Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 2 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye 3 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]
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