Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
The August edition includes: Reviews on Baseball Confidential: Secret History of the War Among Chandler, Durocher, MacPhail, and Rickey; The Lords of Baseball; and 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006 An annotated bibliography on Yankees books “What One Book” Survey (Note: Requires […]
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Several guides to baseball fiction have been thoughtfully created by a number of readers and writers. Note that the same titles are bound to appear on the various “rosters.” Tim Morris, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, developed this Guide to Baseball Fiction, which includes novels, short stories, juvenile fiction, plays, and […]
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Full disclosure: I am a long time member of SABR’s Bibliography Committee and for many years was one of the volunteers who helped put together The Baseball Index. Nevertheless, it’s a great resource for locating written material in myriad forms on players, teams, executives, what have you. The researcher can look up material by player […]
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Merriam-Webster Online recently ran this item about Franklin P. Adams’ poetic homage to the double play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance in Baseball’s Sad Lexicon. Text and an audio version are provided. (So is it pronounced Eh-vers or Ee-vers?). Books on the Cubs stars include: Tinker, Evers, and Chance: A Triple Biography, by […]
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In a previous post, I wrote that The Sporting News would no longer be printing it’s annual baseball record book. True to their word, however, they have made it available on-line at no charge. The sections, rendered as PDF files, are divided into an Introduction and user’s guide; regular season (yearly leaders, career milestones, general […]
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The Baseball Timeline, by Burt Solomon (Dorling Kindersley Publishing). The Chronicle of Baseball: A Century of Major League Action, by John Mehno (Carlton Books). A Stitch in Time: A Baseball Chronology, 1845-2000. by Gene Elston (Halcyon Press). Day-by-Day in Baseball History, by Carl R. Moesche (McFarland). Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game […]
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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
Report: Do Umpires Discriminate?
August 22, 2007
Charges of “ism” — racism, sexism, agism, etc. — always make for hot topics and the media loves to jump on any information, sometimes a bit too quickly, or without fully understanding the material/source/etc. Case in point: In the Aug. 13 edition of Time magazine, Katie Rooney asks the button-pushing question “Are Baseball Umpires Racist?” […]
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