Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
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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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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Because you can put the smaller pieces of debris on a bookshelf: There have been a lot of derogatory remarks about Shea Stadium over the years — too old, too boring, too much walking, too few concessionaires, too smelly rest rooms, etc. But it was the ballpark of my youth, and as with any family, […]
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PBS recently announced that it will air The Tenth Inning, the new Ken Burns documentary on baseball, in the spring of 2010. The special will coincide with a re-broadcast of the original nine-part documentary, which debuted in 1994 and was seen by more than 48 million viewers. The Tenth Inning follows baseball’s trajectory from 1993 […]
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In a time when the print industry is succumbing to economic turmoils, you wonder if, in lieu of raises, Sports Illustrated isn’t offering to promote its writers’ books as a form of compensation. First it was Tom Verducci with The Yankee Years, excerpted on SI.com. He also used his on-line column to discuss the project. […]
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Until I get the Roberts’ book, I’m not going to spend a lot of time deconstructing the Rodriguez debacle. But since I enjoy finding baseball-related items from non-baseball sources, here are two pieces from The New York Times: “As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes,” Noam Cohen’s “Link-by-Link” column in Monday’s Business section. “The way Mr. […]
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“In the early ’90s, the federal government came into pro wrestling and tried to put (WWE Chairman) Vince McMahon in prison for steroid use of wrestlers,” Ventura told NBC’s affiliate in Denver. “My question is: They’ve now determined 104 baseball players failed their steroid test in 2003 — 104. They indicted Vince McMahon, why aren’t […]
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A story from the British media (who love their gossip) puts Brad Pitt in the role of Billy Beane in the screen adaptation of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Pitt would star as the A’s whiz kid who, through the magic of CGI, morphs from a conventional general manager to one who […]
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According to an Associated Press story, …publication of Selena Roberts’ A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez has been moved up from May 19 to April 14 as scrutiny builds on the New York Yankees slugger after he acknowledged using banned substances from 2001-2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers. The item also notes that […]
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In an item on The New Yorker website, Ben McGrath reminds us that Jose Canseco, the author of Juiced and Vindicated reported on A-Rod’s juice use years ago, but no one wanted to believe him. Does that make Canseco a Cassandra? In other book news of special interest to New York fans: Don’t look for […]
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How many of us were aware that Selena Roberts of Sports Illustrated has a book on A-Rod published by Harper Collins due to be released in May? Here’s my cynicism coming through again: All the to-do about Torre’s book, written with Tom Verducci, another well-respected SI writer, comes out when there’s a lull in the […]
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Yeah, I think it’s depressing news on top of what’s been a flurry of depressing items, when it comes to Major League Baseball. And if you’re a fan of Major League Baseball, I think it — it tarnishes an entire era, to some degree. And it’s unfortunate, because I think there are a lot of […]
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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
* Enter pressbox, fingers crossed
April 7, 2009
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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