Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Hey, fair is fair. The mother of New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain is jailed in Nebraska and facing a felony charge after being arrested on suspicion of selling methamphetamine to an undercover police officer in February. No doubt Chamberlain should now be the subject of scrutiny because of family issues. There must be a […]
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Remember when I noted that the robert’s book on A-Rod was coming out on May 12? Oc fourse you don’t, which is why I’m putting a link here. Well scratch that. According to the Times, it comes out May 4. “A-Rod, The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” (HarperCollins), by Selena Roberts, asserts that Rodriguez used […]
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From today’s Boston Globe: “Sox: Henry is not in talks to buy The Globe”
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It’s no secret that newspapers are in a bad way. That includes the sports department, and by extension, baseball writers. Some publications have cut staff, others cutting back by sending writers on fewer road trips, opting to take stories from other sources. Techdirt ran this piece on the situation, referring to this article from The […]
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Sorry, I don’t get it. This is certainly not something I would expect to see as a feature film. A documentary, okay, but a major motion picture with Brad Pitt as Billy Beane and Demetri Martin as Paul DePodesta? What are they trying to do, channel Martin and Lewis? Abbot and Costello? Nor am I […]
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The line comes from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Go look it up. But I’ll tell you it refers to ganging up on someone unmercifully. Not that I have any sympathy for Roger Clemens, but jeez, guys, enough already. How many ways can you say “ham and eggs?” (Sorry, Rabbi.) Jeff Perlman’s book on Clemens […]
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This time in the form of a new documentary about Luis Tiant. The Boston Globe published this piece today about The Lost Son of Havana. Upshot: The movie, scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York April 23 and to open in New England at the Boston Independent Film Festival April 25, […]
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From David Vincent: Bill Nowlin and David Vincent announce the publication of their new book titled “The Ultimate Red Sox Home Run Guide.” The volume is published by Rounder Books and is available through many fine retailers. The guide takes a look at Red Sox homers from the regular season to the postseason, with nearly […]
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The March 31 episode of All Things Considered considered the story of the 140-year-old organ at St. Malachy Church in Philadelphia, which was damaged when the ceiling collapsed 12 years ago, damaging. Now, a fundraiser for the organ’s repair will have a baseball theme because the original builder’s grandson wrote the words to Take Me […]
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In today’s NY Times, Joshua Robinson has a little piece, “Piazza Leaves Quickly, and Quietly, After Ceremony.” He writes about the ceremonial first pitch battery of Tom Seaver and the former Mets catcher. While Tom Terrific hung out afterwards to shmooze, Piazza, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen. Escorted by security, he went from the […]
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That’s the date the Selena Roberts book on Alex Rodriguez is due out. Judging by the AP item, it’s like a run-down play: …Roberts’ unauthorized A-Rod was originally planned for May, then was moved up to mid-April after Roberts, a Sports Illustrated reporter, broke the news that the Yankees slugger had tested positive for steroids […]
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I hope this article from The Wall Street Journal isn’t too prophetic as it warns of newspapers’ shrinking presence in the press box. A few years back, I worked as a part-time reporter for STATS at Mets and Yankees home games. It was a kick, having my own seat in the box, chatting with “real” […]
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Because I keep cookbooks on the shelf, and that’s close enough for jazz… The New York Times ran two pieces today on the food fans can expect at the new area ballparks, one for the Yankees, and one for the Mets.
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Yuri Sacart, the cousin of Yankees player Alex Rodriguez who reportedly injected the baseball star with steroids, is writing a book. Sacart has joined the Creative Artists Agency and is shopping around his tell-all to major publishers. According to Allheadlinenews.com. Of course, I’ll be really embarrassed if this is an “Onion”-like outfit.
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From the BizofBaseball site, more on the Red and Green Books, including a few interesting snippets.
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Scroll down yesterday’s post on Odd Man Out to read the excellent comments to date. For more, visit The Perpetual Post.
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This item from The New York Times casts another shadow over a new book. In The Rocket Who Fell to Earth, Jeff Pearlman’s new biography on Roger Clemens, the author reports an account offered by an unnamed Yankee episode in which Brian Cashman purportedly took Jason Giambi to task for poor performance by shouting at […]
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The Topps company recently announced a new high-tech collectible: 3D Live baseball cards. The idea is you hold them in front of your webcam (because absolutely every collector has a webcam these days) and it renders the card as an avatar on the screen. You can rotate the card to see it from all angles, […]
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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
* Maybe someone should have thought of this awhile ago
April 22, 2009
The Yankee game was on TV last night and I noticed from the centerfield shot that many of the seats behind the plate were vacant. At first I just chalked it up to the early hour; people probably hadn’ arrived yet. I subsequently switched to the Mets game and thought no more of it. Until […]
Tagged as: Citi Field, Mets, ticket prices, Yankee Stadium, Yankees
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