Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
“A-Rod makes more than Marlins Roster” Rodriguez: $28,000,000 Marlins: $21,800,000* * Active roster includes Lee Gardner, Kevin Gregg, Mike Hendrickson, Logan Kensing, Matt Lindstrom, Andrew Miller, Ricky Nolasco, Scott Olsen, Renyel Pinto, Taylor Tankersley, Rick VandenHurk, Paul Hoover, Matt Treanor, Robert Andino, Jorge Cantu, Mike Jacobs, Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Jason Wood, Alfredo Amexaga, Brett […]
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How come we’re not hearing much about Vindicated these days? Just a week ago it was such hot news. Now, nothing. I imagine I’ll be reviewing it at some point, but so far I haven’t seen it among any of the baseball book reviews published so far.
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I felt it was my duty to report that Canseco will be the subject of a Nightline segment this evening. As a bonus, the page links to an excerpt from Vindicated. Man, that show has gone downhill since Ted Koppel left.
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Yeah, I know what I said, but here are a few fallout items of note on the Canseco project. The most “impressive” of the bunch comes from the mind of Pat Jordan on Deadspin.com, who started the whole ballplayer-as-writer business with his 1960 books A Short Season and The Pennant Race. He comes to the […]
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I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing all the news that comes out about Vindicated. They’re pretty much rehashings of the same story, Rodriguez this, Ordonez that, blah, blah, blah. Here’s a piece from today’s New York Times; it will probably be the last from the Bookshelf until the actual reviews start […]
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“Weighing the Committee Record: A Balanced Review of the Evidence Regarding Performance Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” Is that like FOX News is “clear and balanced?” The official press release: Minority Report: No Easy Answers in Clemens Steroid Use Case Details Don’t All Add Up For Pitcher or Trainer, Investigators Find WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2008 […]
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(and not because of the steroid injection metaphor) “Did Roger Clemens lie to us?” [Rep. Tom] Davis said in a release accompanying the report [ released today questioning whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner lied in his testimony before the panel last month]. “Some of the evidence seems to say he did; other information […]
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ESPN.com uses this language for its headline of the Associated Press story on the Petroskey resignation: HOF president resigns amid ‘fiduciary’ questions The reader will note the quote marks around fiduciary. The Hall did not detail Petroskey’s actions. Spokesman Brad Horn said the executive committee believed they weren’t criminal and that he did not benefit […]
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According to this item in today’s on-line Publisher’s Weekly: As Jose Canseco’s Vindicated arrives in stores, the controversial baseball player’s relationship with former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens is under new scrutiny, as federal authorities investigate whether Clemens committed perjury when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while testifying under oath to a Congressional committee. Canseco’s second […]
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According to a press release issued this afternoon: Dale A. Petroskey, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, has resigned, effective immediately, the Executive Committee of the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors announced today. The Executive Committee issued this statement: “By mutual agreement, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors […]
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This amusing item, from the Chicago Tribune. Ah, the joyful hijinks of spring training.
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According to this piece in the New York Daily News, Jose Canseco’s book tours in California “may take an abrupt detour: The former slugger and admitted steroid user is expected to have a face-to-face meeting with IRS special agent Jeff Novitzky, the government’s lead steroid investigator who is now focusing his efforts on whether pitcher […]
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From The Deadbolt News, a report on the “opening night” of Jose Canseco’s author tour, which begins Monday, March 31 on Letterman. According to the official CBS press release, “Canseco will appear on the LATE SHOW to promote his new book, Vindicated, which will be published on the following day, Tuesday, April 1. Vindicated is […]
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From “My Grandma’s of New England“ Pure Dark chocolate morsels are sprinkled, along with fresh walnuts, throughout the middle and atop this already luscious rich and moist chocolate batter. This cake was tasted by Hall of Famer Ted Williams, the greatest hitter in the history of baseball, and deemed worthy enough to be named “The […]
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From the on-line edition of the East Brunswick Home News Tribune: “Eight Men Out” is a book by Eliot Asinof about the eight members of the Chicago White Sox kicked out of baseball for their role in throwing the 1919 World Series. This week there are eight men wondering if they will be the next […]
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Stealing a thought from The Tony Kornheiser Show and his penchant for the “old man radio” intros for his segments… It probably won’t last long, but the new FOX program New Amsterdam will have a special place in my heart. The police drama stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (as opposed to Game of Shadows’ Mark Fainaru-Wada) as […]
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You can read the whole sorry story here.
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but did anyone notice that the co-author of Game of Shadows, the book that blew the cover off of Barry Bonds and the whole steroids scandal, is named Mark Fainaru-Wada. That’s WADA, as in World Anti-Doping Agency. Coincidence? Or destiny? Hmmm.
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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
* Don't look for Nationals Park to be featured in Architectural Digest anytime soon
April 1, 2008
I heard about this Washington Post item via one of my favorite podcasts, The Tony Kornheiser Show. The raging redhead rails against this analysis of the new edifice by WaPo architecture columnist Philip Kennicott, calling him a variety of colorful names and attacking his skills as a writer. The opening paragraph is apparently what set […]
Tagged as: architecture, stadiums, Tony Kornheiser, Washington Nationals
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