Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
From TampaBay.com, the web presence of the St. Petersbuerg Times. Upshot: The movie needs some trimming, and it wouldn’t hurt for something conventional to happen along its ambling way. Regardless, this is one of 2009’s most interesting and original films, so far. A-
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gets a non-glowing review in The Washington Times. Upshot: The veteran newsman thinks he has things to say, about baseball, puppy love and the greatest generation. But the way in which he says those things are so bland and so uninteresting and so hackneyed and so cartoonish that one begins to speed through the pages, […]
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From the Detroit Free Press. Upshot: The result is a tragic, all-encompassing look at the life of a man who captured the hearts of baseball fans with his 98-m.p.h. heater and renowned work ethic, only to lose it through deep-seeded character flaws and bad decisions. You want to root for Clemens in this book, but […]
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From George Will, syndicated in the Seattle Times. Upshot: Forests are felled to produce baseball books, about 600 a year, most of them not worth the paper they should never have been printed on. Weber’s, however, is a terrific introduction to, among much else, the rule book’s Talmudic subtleties…
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From Book Nut.
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No one can nurse a grudge like a Brooklyn guy can nurse a grudge. Take, for example, this article on Michael D’Antonio’s “apology” for Walter O’Malley. D’Antonio’s biography was the result of that ultimate Faustian bargain: in exchange for giving the elder O’Malley a fair shake, the family gave the author access to thousands of […]
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This one comes from the Fredericksburg Times.
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Seems Yonamine was sort of the Jackie Robinson of Japanese baseball. This review comes from The Hardball Times.
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Seems this one is still out there on some people’s minds. This review of the controversial memoir comes from the Teacerrefpoet blog.
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The Chicago Blog posted this brief piece considering a couple of off-the-beaten-path baseball titles, including Professor Baseball and Veeck as in Wreck, both of which present the game as belonging to the common man, rather than elite athletes and multi-millionaires.
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The Preacher’s Pen blog posted this piece on Josh Hamilton’s inspirational autobio. Josh Hamilton could be called the “Prodigal Son” of baseball. His life as headed for the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mi, until a fateful day when he allowed the troubles of the world to infect his life. His parents struggled with their […]
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Greg Prince, who heads up the Faith and Fear in Flushing blog, recently came out with a book that collects all the love for the Mets he can muster. In this entry, and in honor of the Passover holiday, he uses the “Four Questions” approach to discuss five new titles, not all of which are […]
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Here’s one way to do it: Reprint something from your archives and call it a “classic.” That’s what the Christian Science Monitor does with this 1985 review of The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball.
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The Globe featured several titles in this roundup, including Bruce Weber’s As They See ‘Em, Charles Fountain’s Under the March Sky, and Peter Morris’ Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero, as well as a few Sox-centric books.
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Maybe one of these days, when I run out of good baseball books to read, I’ll return to Alysaa Milano’s treatise. I wanted to be very careful and not judge too harshly. If her celebrity status can bring a few new fans to the game, maybe it’s worth it. But no. There are so many […]
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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
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April 9, 2009
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.
Tagged as: Baseball Dicitonary, Paul Dickson
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