Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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(…Because you can keep those little pocket schedules on your bookshelf.) I am still waiting for some sports pundit to start off about the possibility of having three inning baseball games. It worked out pretty well for the Phillies and the fans. Started at 8:30, over before 10:30. Might even bring the young fans back […]
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Your new baseball world champs. Look for a new title (at least) will be added to the existing Phillies’ bibliography in the months to come.
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With these tough economic times, I wonder if there’s been a run of card collectors trying to unload their little pieces of cardboard. For those of you interested, here’s a piece describing the appraisal process and another on the determination of “book value.”
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An interesting trio team up in this Times op-ed piece comparing the tools used to analyze baseball and the American health system. Oakland As GM Billy Beane, Newt Gingrich, and John Kerry — the new Tinkers to Evers to Chance? Or O’Brien to Ryan to Goldberg, perhaps? Interesting excerpt: “…a doctor today can get more […]
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From NPR, this item about those stupid bets politicians make on their teams at World Series time.
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If you can’t keep track of this, you don’t deserve to have ’em…
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The banks are no good anyway. Whatever you do, don’t spend it on baseball tickets… “Can Sports Avoid This Recession?” Can’t you just see the free agent market this off-season? Who can claim collusion if the owners keep the salaries down? They’ll just claim a poor economy. I wonder how many fans will be up[set […]
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As mentioned yesterday: As an unrepentant skeptic, I was wondering if the “powers that be” consulted the managers of the Rays and Phillies, urging them not to steal any bases. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a report on how many of these digestive bombs were doled out.
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The New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog ran this item on why fans shouldn;t rush to buy tickets for the fall classic: …here’s my advice: If you are looking to buy World Series tickets, you should wait until a day or two before the game. In fact, as the graph … shows, this may yield savings […]
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The Numbers Guy column in the Oct. 21 The Wall Street Journal published this piece on the likelihood of Tampa fans winning a freebie from Taco Bell. All one of the players has to do during the entire World Series is steal a base. Doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Either Taco Bell is […]
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t […]
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Stephen King at the Tuesday night game between the Red Sox and Rays. Note the book title: When Will There Be Good News? None to be found that night, since Tampa was beatin’ the bejesus out of Boston.
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So just who do those Brits think they are, printing a piece like “How Baseball Explains the U.S. Elections“? Somewhere I’m sure there’s an article about World Series winners as a predictor of the Presidential elections. Hmm, let’s see. Since the first World Series in 1903 (the Fall Classic wasn’t played in 1904), 25 have […]
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When I was studying television arts in college, we learned about FCC rules, including the concept of equal times to be afforded to candidates. The premise was that if a TV program had candidate A on for 15 minutes, they had to offer the same consideration to candidate B. Since I posted an entry about […]
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Former baseball star Canseco detained at US border Associated Press headline, Oct. 11 The only way he’ll get back in is if he agrees not to write any more books.
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Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats, And toss my coffin in Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall Will bid the bleacher bums adieu And I will […]
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Or “This is why we’re falling behind the other industrialized nations.” Bates College offers a course about “Red Sox Nation”
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This year marks the first time since 1995 that a New York team has not been in a playoff. So what will sportswriters cover during the playoffs? Well, The New York Times ran this story today, along with this sidebar, on those fancy patterns in the outfield grass. Want that look for your own backyard? […]
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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
* Hats off to Tampa or "You wascally wabbit"
October 31, 2008
I know it was really cold and nasty weather in Philly during the World Series. I can accept the storm coats and balaclavas the players have taken to wearing on the frigid east coast fall nights. I could put up with the “pajama pants” and baggy jerseys that seem to be the rage these days […]
Tagged as: baseball caps, Tampa Bay Rays
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