Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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With the new book about Roger Clemens hitting the stores today, the Rocket has come out of the closet (so to speak), to stick to his guns about his non-use of PED. According to this piece from STATS, Roger Clemens broke his silence Tuesday, again denying that former personal trainer Brian McNamee injected him with […]
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From TheHardBallTimes, this review of Bill Reynolds’’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City. Upshot: Despite many faults, HBT reviewer Chris Jaffe concludes, “I enjoyed this book far more than I expected to because of its considerable strengths. Though it couldn’t quite fuse its elements, Reynolds didn’t try to force fusion […]
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Loathe as I am to get dirty with the A-Rod book, I feel I would be derelict in my “duty” to ignore it. So we’ll try to make this as painless as possible. I’m still waiting for my copy, so I’m just passing along what I’ve read. The news falls into three basic camps: those […]
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Don Amore from the Hartford Courant published this piece, pursuant to all the hubbub about the release yesterday of the Rodriguez biography. I have absolutely no quibble with his selection of Ball Four as his pick for the Babe Ruth/Hank Aaron/Cy Young of baseball books. But when he includes Spakry Lyle’s The Bronx Zoo among […]
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A joint review of two new books by former Mets graces the pages of the Sunday Times Book Review Section. Under the general headline “The Boys of Bummer,” Bruce Handy, a writer and deputy editor of Vantiy Fair, critiques Ron Darling’s The Perfect Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, and Darryl […]
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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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RiverAveBlues.com, the official Yankees blog of the YES Network, recently ran this review of Jane Heller’s book.
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Baseball America gave it four basket catches. More on the film: USA Today National Public Radio Variety Rotten Tomatoes An interview with the directors, on Salon.com, whose film critic calls it the “best baseball movie ever.”
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As he did last year, Tom Hoffarth took on the arduous challenge of providing his readers of the Los Angeles Daily News with a baseball book review a day. The result is an excellent look at some of the top books on the game, as well as some that might have fallen under the radar. […]
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I always enjoy finding pieces on baseball lit from unexpected sources. Here’s one more. The question stemmed from a previous entry on the Alyssa Milano book.
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The Hardball Times published this one. As usual, the reviews that come out of HBT are literate, in-depth, and well-conceived.
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This entry on Officiating.com refers George F. Will’s column on Bruce Weber’s new book, As They See ‘Em. Strictly speaking, it is not, as the title asserts, a paean for umpires, but rather dap for the book.
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The Henry Wiggen Blog (“Sports, Journalism, Kansas City and everything in between”) features several review of classic baseball titles. Among them: Prophet of the Sandlots, one of the best books about the scouting system The Celebrant, Eric Rolfe Greenberg’s novel of the New York Giants of Mr. McGraw Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella, the basis […]
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AmericanChronicle.com features this review of Michael Shapiro’s new book.
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From PhillyScout.com. And how nice is it that it;s reprinted on RaysScout.com, the “sister site” for the tampa bay (and World Series’ loser) Rays.
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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
* SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter
May 6, 2009
The current edition includes reveiws of The Girl Who Thre Butterflies; Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty; Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality; and news about SABR book award winners Tom Swift (Chief Bender’s Burden) and Ronald M. Selter (Ballparks of the Deadball Era). SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter, April […]
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