Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Voice of America, an organization “which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million […]
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A thoughtful examination of Feinstein’s latest.
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From BaseballGB, which takes a look at the game from across the pond.
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The SoverignGraceMinistries blog includes three baseball titles for its top 12 (?) beach books: Men at Work, by George F. Will Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season, by Jonathan Eig Everything They Had (honorary baseball title), by David Halberstam Interestingly, the writer includes two books that employ the “best/great” in their title; […]
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Says this piece in the Orange County Register, which suggests some baseball books might make the perfect gift. Titles include: Still a Kid at Heart, by Gary Carter The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox and the Playoff of ’78, by Richard Bradley Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends 100 Baseball Icons (photos […]
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From rationalmagic.com, this critique of the graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing. More on Golem: From TIME Magazine From PopMatters.com From FlakMag.com Several panels, courtesy of New Yorker From Nine, a scholarly baseball journal published by the University of Nebraska Press
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BaseballGB, a blog from “across the pond,” reviews this 2007 title by Tom Tango, et al. It reports on the nuts and bolts of the book, but doesn’t give an opinion as to its worth one way or the other. I always find it interest to see how countries in which baseball is not a […]
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This duet of mini-reviews includes: Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots, by Spike Vrusho The Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love, by Jesse Lamovsky, Matthew Rosetti and Charlie Demarco Detect a theme here?
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Speaking of oldies, here’s a blast from the past: Roger Angell’s collection of baseball writing, from the POV of Things Above, “Reflections on Christian spirituality and other of life’s important issues”…such as baseball.
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from the very stats-oriented blog, Walk Like a Sabermetrician. It would seem that the reviewer did not like this one too much, resorting to key phrases such as “the downside is…”, “the problem is…”, etc. Sounds like heresy, coming from a blog named like this one. Now I’m not a hardcore stats guy, and maybe […]
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As reported on Missourinet.com, the biography — Harry Caray: Voice of the Fans — features a CD of some of the legendary broadcaster’s greatest calls.
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This blogger at Soxlinks does a better job than I at parsing the anti-Bradley review from the Boston Phoenix.
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Lots of baseball in today’s Times. In the Play supplement, a slide show offers tips from stars like George Brett on how hitters keep their weight back, identify pitches, hit the other way, go for the long ball (which chicks dig), adjust to right- and left-handed pitchers, adjust to the count, and prepare their swing […]
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From Orlandosentinel.com. Sorry, but are the majority of baseball books “bathroom reading?” Certainly the sports page is, so by extension… Think about it: most baseball content is relatively short, full of numbers, and don’t require the deep thought that comes with more time to digest, so to speak.
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As reviewed on Gaslamp.com, “San Diego Padres baseball in the form of a blog.”
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From a more diverse post on Chapelhillnews.com: ‘Living on the Black’ ‘Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember”, $26.99 (Little Brown, 526 pp.), by John Feinstein Pitching is one of the most difficult jobs on the planet. So, pitching well is reserved for only an elite few athletes. John Feinstein’s “Living on the Black” […]
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The National Sports Review gave this posthumous collection of Halberstam’s sports pieces top marks. Upshot: The book is littered with really interesting stories, including a neat section on Michael Jordan. I love reading about Michael Jordan so I was glad to see he was included. The story about his interview with Ted Williams was really […]
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City Pages, a Minneapolis/St. Paul based organization, ran this review of Peter Schilling Jr’s. new novel concerning the integration of baseball and Bill Veeck. Upshot: Skillfully drawn with all his flair (and all his faults), Schilling does a near-masterful job of constructing Veeck….And for what Schilling lacks at moments in his spare descriptions of zeitgeist […]
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A blast from the past courtesy of the Lansing State Journal. Upshot: …[O]ne book is not responsible for the seismic shift in sports media during the past 40 years, or even the past five years. But it’s part of it, and Bouton’s book is among the first insights that the game, the strategy and the […]
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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
