Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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For the remainder of the season, I’m pleased to bring you this handy little service. [clearspring_widget title=”ESPN MLB Scoreboard” wid=”4720c18d686f2d00″ pid=”48c5c91755d4178b” width=”300″ height=”387″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”]
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from an unlikely source. Nils Lofgren, guitarist for Springsteen’s E Street band, and his wife, Amy, created this musical tribute. It’s available as a free download (along with The Star Spangled Banner), here. Some enterprising person should put this to a slide show.
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Zack Hample, who has made a cottage industry about snagging foul and batting practice balls at the stadium, pulled off a coup this week when he caught home runs on consecutive nights at Yankee Stadium. Evidently it’s a rare feat, according to this profile in Newsday. Hample is the author of How to Snag Major […]
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And another piece by Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man. This one was published by The Wall Street Journal.
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(Because sometimes my cats snoozs on my bookshelf.) Saw this headline on the sports component of Comcast.net: Ex-Met Kills Cat in Rage? Which leads to a story about Former New York Mets minor leaguer Joseph Petcka, 37, [who] is on trial on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals for killing Norman [a cat] on March […]
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I wonder if, instead of the traditional rendition of “New York, New York” — the “sign off” at Yankee’s home games — we’ll be treated Ol’ Blue Eyes crooning “My Way.” “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain…” In addition to Tom Verducci’s “first stadium” account of the end […]
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According to this AP story, “Taxpayers and ticket buyers are the losers in plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies to build the new Yankee Stadium….” And Mets fans shouldn’t be smug about it: “[Assemblyman Richard Brodsky] said the concerns about subsidies for private businesses without direct benefit to the public […]
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for pitching thre first Cubs no-hitter in more than 35 years. Guess they have to update these now…
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He becomes the answer to the trivia question, who hit the 250,000th home run in the majors? Milestone Home Runs, compiled by Baseball-Reference.com 1. 1876-05-02 Ross Barnes (CHC) off Cherokee Fisher (CIN) in 5th inning 100. 1879-06-17 Charley Jones (BSN) off Will White (CIN) in 1st inning *1,000. 1884-07-04 Ned Williamson (CHC) off John Coleman […]
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Congratulations, Mrs. Cassel. You must be very proud of your boys.
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According to this piece from the Publisher’s Weekly daily e-mail, the house is going through some major changes. At the risk of sounding elitist, Sports Publishing has always struck me as a common man’s McFarland. While the latter is a home for academic treatises of the most eclectic topics, the former producing titles that one […]
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but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
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Pay for the preview privilege? Apparently Sports Illustrated thinks its entitled, raising the price for their specials by a buck, from $4.99 to $5.99, according to this item. Come on, does any serious fan still get information from the printed page? Of course, there are those who are more interested in the thoughtful prose that […]
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Every now and again we have someone who brings up the question: Did Babe Ruth actually “call” his home run in the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs? Many say no, some, like this gentleman, swear he did. Who’s to say? Grainy film of the event make it difficult to tell with absolute certainty. […]
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Is it just me, or has there been a surprisingly small amount of outcry from baseball traditionalists (aka, old folks like me), objecting to the use of instant replay in baseball? MLB instituted the practice this week, using it primarily for home runs. Seems someone high up on the food chain was tired of too […]
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It may surprise you to hear that I hate the post-season. Let me rephrase. I hate the post-season when the non-baseball “fans” pop out of the woodwork to get involved. Where were they in April and May? I especially despise those celebrities whose faces are shown in every other shot (“Oh, and there’s Sarah Jessica […]
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Mariotti, an “the opinionated and polarizing sports columnist” who frequently made White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen the target of his antipathy, has resigned from the Sun-Times. In a city with a strong sports journalism tradition, Mariotti was regarded as one of the leading columnists and certainly the most provocative. With a style that relied on […]
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According to a press release from Major League Baseball, limited replay review begins Aug. 28 in three series: Minnesota at Oakland, Texas at Los Angeles and Phillies at Chicago. The rest of the teams will begin on Friday. The statement announces that Instant replay will apply only to home run calls — whether they are […]
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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
* In defense of instant replay
September 9, 2008
In this Allen Barra piece that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal, Rob Neyer wodners why the sue of instant rplay should be limited to home run calls? [The] author of “The Big Book of Baseball Blunders,” asks: “Why can’t umpires use replay in calling safe or out? Official scorers already use it to decide […]
Tagged as: instant replay, Rob Neyer, Wall Street Journal
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