Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Paul Newman has died at the age of 83. The blue-eyed heartthrob was one of those lucky performers able to enjoy his craft for decades. Newman appeared in Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly which was a production of the U.S. Steel Hour. You can watch the program here: Bang the Drum Slowly
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Fans have been talking incessantly about the Cubs’ failure to win a World Championship in the last 100 years. What often goes overlooked is how they got to that one. If it weren’t for the infamous baserunning blunder by a New York Giants rookie (actually playing in his second season), the Cubs’ futility record would […]
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How could they not?
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Jim Bouton will discuss his bubble-gum emporium with “a business audience in DeWitt Tuesday.” Not sure if that means it’s closed to the general public and there’s no further information. But I guess if you’re in the area, you can contact the writer.
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The Sept. 17 Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC featured an interview with Assemblyman Richard Brodsky whose report, “The House That You Built,” decired the new stadium as a burden on the New York taxpayer. Give a listen: And here’s the full report: The House That You Built, by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky http://audio.wnyc.org/bl/bl091708dpod.mp3Podcast: Play in new […]
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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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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 […]
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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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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
* Define "dynasty"
September 24, 2008
The Red Sox won their game last night against the Indians, bringing an end to the Yankees’ string, which reaches back to 1995. Some would say that any sports season is a failure if you don’t come away with a championship. Others disagree, believing it’s all relative (just ask any franchise that’s been mired in […]
Tagged as: New York Yankees
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