Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
The Anatomy of Baseball anthology is getting a good deal of press these days. Here’s a critique from the National Sports Review. It’s also included in this Boston Globe roundup, which includes an interewsting and unusual collection of titles, such as Sort of Gone: Poems by Sarah Freligh ; The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I have given major props to the L.A. Daily News‘ Tom Hoffarth for his thoughtful month-long series of baseball book reviews. Today’s the last day, so here’s his “whole freakin’ list” which lists and links all 30 titles. He was also gracious enough — self-promotion alert — to mention The Bookshelf in his wrap-up. Thanks […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
from the Web presence of the Arizona Daily Star
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The Wall Street Journal also ran this review by Pete Hausler of the new bio on the Yog by Carlo Devito. In sifting through [more than 4,000 sources], Mr. DeVito makes what seems initially like a strange choice: He includes many stories, anecdotes, and quotes that are now widely considered to be apocryphal (his word). […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960, by Jim Reisler (Carroll & Graf) I thought I had addressed this book when it came out, but evidently I was think about Reisler’s previous book, A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame. To me, “Best” is on a par […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Two baseball related items in the May 2 issue of The Week: The Book List has mini-capsule reviews of four titles including But Didn’t We Have Fun?, The Greatest Game; We Would Have Played for Nothing; and The Code. In “The last word” section, “The truth about baseball’s roots” is excerpted from Kevin Baker’s “At […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Time to play catch-up: From a rival site about baseball book reviews, this piece on Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and The Say Hey Kid (another of those books that uses words like “greatest” and “forever” in its title). An oldie, but good: this review of The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Douglass Wallop, […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
by Steve Johnson, as critiqued in the Gary (IN) Post-Tribune. Upshot: Chicago Cubs fans will soon receive an opportunity to enjoy a gem that will give them an appreciation of the history and heritage of one of the country’s most beloved sports franchises.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The LiterateLives blog highlights two baseball titles for young adult readers: Mike Lupica’s The Big Field, and Six Innings, by James Preller.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The all-star, gold-glove Mets outfielder turns 31 today. The Amazon Report on Carlos Beltran: Pedro, Carlos, and Omar: The Story of a Season in the Big Apple and the Pursuit of Baseball’s Top Latino Stars, by Adam Rubin. You can read a review from “Yankees 2000” here.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
This list appeared on the SABR listserve (?). Thanks, to Greg Spira for compiling this extensive collection. Some of these review may be duplicate of what I’ve already posted and I have made no changes in style or contents to his list. “Links to many, many reviews (not features) of new baseball books reviews […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
From Salon.com’s resident sports guy King Kaufman (I’d like to see his birth certificate), this review/profile of Neyer and his latest.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
From The Wall Street Journal. Sure it covers other spors, too, but baseball comes first. “Former Popular Mechanics staffer and frequent contributor Frank Vizard admits to gravitating toward baseball, confessing in his introduction, ‘If Popular Mechanics can be said to have a favorite sport, it would be baseball, as that game has received the most […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
In preparation for the April 21 PBS American Experience program on the late Latino superstar, here’s a New York Times’ review by George F. Will of David Maraniss’s 2006 biography. For a sample for the audio book, listen here: http://audible.edgeboss.net/download/audible/content/bk/sans/000683/bk_sans_000683_sample.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Neyer’s latest is the subject of many glowing reviews, including: From Ducksnorts, a Padres-based blog, “I’m struck by three elements of Neyer’s work: how thorough his research is, how tightly the book’s layout integrates with its content, and how much he enjoys these stories even as he attempts to debunk them.” From River Ave. Blues, […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Okay, it’s been at least five minutes since we’ve heard anything about Jose Hemingway. For those of you who need a fix, here are a few crumbs: The Week is an interesting publication, kind of like a condense Reader’s Digest offering snippets from other publications on the major events of the last seven days. As […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Gene Carney wrote this review of the new bio on Eddie “Cocky” Collins. I always found it bizarre that of all the actors John Sayles could have found to portray the second baseman in the film version of Eight Men Out, he chose Bill Irwin, who at the time was known more for his silent […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
LA Daily News sportswriter Tom Hoffarth, a sportswriter/blogger for the LA Daily News, has undertaken the task of highlighting 30 baseball books during the month of April. In his first entry on his entertaining “Farther off the Wall” blog (well, it’s almost an anagram of his name), he explains his project: Baseball books by the […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
You know you’ve made it when your book appears in a Sunday Times review. In fact, I wonder if there have been studies that have quantified in cold numbers what such an “endorsement” means for sales. One quibble: Olney, a sports writer for the Times and an ESPN commentator, spends too much time talking about […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
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
* Catching up, Part 1
April 8, 2008
There’s a lot of material that’s fallen by the wayside as I try to keep this blog fresh with the latest in baseball book publishing information. But in the words of the revered philosopher, Regis Philbin, “I’m only one man!” So I’m using this space to try to catch up. Some of the items might […]
Tagged as: Audio, baseball books, Bobble heads, collections, hobbies, Memorabilia, Nostalgia, Sportswriting
{ Comments on this entry are closed }