Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The Yankees free agent bust who caused no end of delight as the print media tried to figure out to relate an annoyed George Steinbrenner’s description of his overpriced pitcher as “a fat pussy toad,” was found dead in his suburban Los Angeles home yesterday. He was 42. In the New York Times obituary, the […]
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Dickson, author of several outstanding books on the game, not the least of which is his eponymous Baseball Dictionary, was recently honored at an event sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary. While Robert Alomar, Bert Blyleven, and Pat Gillick were in Cooperstown last weekend, the Reliquary was having an “induction day” of its own in southern […]
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but the difference in weight and shape can mess up your ceremonial first pitch, as we see here for former Major Leaguer and current author Doug Glanville.
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They never show fans running on to the field because they don’t want to encourage that sort of behavior, but sometimes it can be more entertaining than the actual game. Originally from Sports Illustrated‘s Extra Mustard blog: “A fan ran onto the field during last night’s Cardinals-Mets game. The takedown stinks, but the key here […]
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Took the first part of the vacation last week to work on the book. The next section comes up at the beginning of August as we travel to Boston. We’ll be taking in the Friday night Yankees-Red Sox game (trying to convince my daughter to leave the Jeter jersey at home). But while tooling around […]
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Dan Gutman has created a series of pretty good kids’ books with the premise of a boy who can travel back through time to meet some of the greatest players in the game, among them Honus Wagner, Mickey Mantle, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and Babe Ruth, among others. Now, I don’t know the whole story here, […]
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The Hall of Fame manager died today at the age of 82. UPDATE: Richard Goldstein’s obituary for Williams in today’s NY Times. Williams won back-to-back World Championships with the Oakland As in 1972-73. He also led the Boston Red Sox to their “Impossible Dream” pennant in 1967 in his first year as a manager at […]
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(Because you can put sheet music on your bookshelf.) So first they said that Jose Reyes had sustained a hamstring injury in Saturday’s game and we held our collective breath. Then they said it was a Grade One, the “best” kind of that injury you can have. He’d miss the Sunday game and, given the […]
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If Bernard Malamud’s The Natural was supposedly based on the shooting of Eddie Waitkus, where’s a similar volume on Billy Jurges? On this date in 1932 — 17 years before the Waitkus incident — Jurges, a 24-year-old playing for the Cubs, was shot by a “deranged” fan who threatened suicide and but for his lunging […]
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As of this writing, Derek Jeter stands just four hits away from the magical 3,000. ESPN is working on Derek Jeter 3K, a “documentary” “Set to Air Just Weeks After 3,000th Hit,” according to a press release. Can the souvenir t-shirts, caps, etc. be far behind? The name seems like a natural for a video […]
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The composer of “Meet the Mets” died June 30 at the age of 84. From the JTA’s Eulogizer blog: Ruth Roberts, 84, wrote ‘Meet the Mets’ Ruth Roberts, a popular song composer whose work was sung by millions of New York Mets fans and the Beatles, among many others, died June 30 at 84. Roberts […]
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I don’t know where I got the idea that this was going to air on HBO’s Real Sports, but it’s actually going to be on July 13, the day after the All-Star Game. From SportsNewser: Curt Flood, whose pioneering fight against baseball’s reserve clause paved the way for the advent of free agency in the […]
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Bookshelf shorthand for Take Me Out to The Ball Game, as per Baseball-Reference.com’s Bullpen: To honor the lyricist of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Jack Norworth Day is celebrated at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Neither Norworth nor his partner Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music, had ever seen a game when they created […]
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Michael Sokolove has cover story honors for the Sunday Magazine, which looks at Derek Jeter as the poster boy for aging athletes — and not necessarily in a good way. Man, I wish I could be 37 again. I wish I could remember 37 again. In a related note, here’s a look at the “decline” […]
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For better or worse, Canseco gets (deserves?) credit for blowing the whistle on steroids and PED. It’s not his fault if those in a position to do something about it.
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From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Baseball and the movies grew up together in America, becoming a part of the fabric of the nation that made both famous. Their shared history is on display every day at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum through the Baseball At The Movies exhibit. And the newest […]
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I heard about Northrup and Pagan on the Mets radio broadcast last night. It’s one thing when a player of Bob Feller’s age passes; he was “before my time.” But when the guys I grew up with start to go, the mortality factor really sets in. Northrup, who died at the age of 71, was […]
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The good news is that Time Magazine has seen fit to choose a baseball blog as one of its “Best of 2011.” The bad news is that it isn’t the Bookshelf. Curse you, MLBTradeRumors.com.
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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
Glanville appreciates Jeter’s accomplishment
July 8, 2011
Who better than a fellow athlete to appreciate what it takes to make it to a milestone? Doug Glanville, author of The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, wrote this piece for The New York Times.
Tagged as: Derek Jeter, Doug Glanville
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