Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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The New York Times recently ran this article about sportswriters as the new breed of free agent, moving from publication to publication for higher and higher salaries. Rick Reilly recently left Sports Illustrated for ESPN The Magazine, while Dan Patrick did the reverse (think of it as a trade of two superstars). These are just […]
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From The New York Times, Dec. 25: Wallace, Fan of Clemens, Becomes His Questioner Hard to believe Wallace is 89. Wallace said Monday that he had already begun to map out the questions he wanted to ask Clemens. “Why would McNamee say these things he said?” said Wallace, a point that has been asked by […]
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Clemens reports he will also appar on 60 Minutes after the New Year. One might be more likely to believe players had not Pete Rose been so adamant in his denials about his gambling on baseball games. The Amazon Report: The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens Rocket Man: The Roger Clemens Story
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There are similarities, according to Jon Friedman of Marketwatch. This wouldn’t be the first time that a baseball player was scorned by sportswriters for telling the truth and hurling a big exclusive in their faces. In 1970, the landmark “Ball Four” was published and set a standard for the genre of sports books. It was […]
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Steve Kettman submitted this rather lengthy Letter to the Editor to The New York Times (Dec. 19) in which he states, among other things, that the Mitchell Report “immediately recasts the importance of the small library of books documenting — and in some cases, shaping — baseball’s steroid era.” This should be taken with a […]
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As reported here, the release of the Mitchell Report has meant a renewed interest in Game of Shadows. But according to Keith J. Kelly, Media Ink columnist for the New York Post, “While the baseball steroid scandal is playing out across the front pages of newspapers, it so far hasn’t translated into much of a […]
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Hot on the release of the Mitchell Report, 60 Minutes aired a segment on Alex Rodriguez, the former and future highest paid player in the game. Among other revelations, the 2007 AL MVP says he has never taken performance enhancing drugs. Of course, everyone is pretty much skeptical of anything any athlete has to say […]
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Nothing, according to Bruce Weber in the Dec. Sunday Times “Week in Review Section,” who offers several examples and quotes to back up his philosophy. “Cheating in baseball is just like hot dogs, French fries and cold Cokes,” Billy Martin, the pugnacious former player and manager once declared, a sentiment echoed, in an interview, by […]
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Courtesy of The New York Times.
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From Time.com, following the release of the Mitchell Report: Even though the Mitchell report didn’t have a section on sports writers, ask yourself this: the Senator’s staff spends months to produce a 400-plus page report documenting his investigation of steroid abuse in Major League Baseball, and within 24 hours a relatively small group of journalists […]
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Since Moneyball is considered the book about the game, at least in recent years, it seems inevitable that whatever happens in the game gets linked to it somehow. Here’s the latest, from Slate.com. Moneyball, published in 2003, was a rebuttal to one George Mitchell panel report on the problems of baseball: the 2000 findings of […]
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An excerpt from the press conference: Commissioner Selig’s response: Who says only Americans really care about the steroids scandal? One more response: A commentary by Sports Illustrated‘s redoubtable Tom Verducci. Another from the Business of Baseball Web site. And an in-depth piece from Editor and Publisher, of all places. This one is interesting, because it […]
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The MLB.com story on the Mitchell Report, which presently stands at two-plus hours and counting.
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Since the Mitchell Report will undoubtedly be available in print form soon, I’m getting a jump. There will be thousands of words devoted to how the fans were betrayed, how the statistics are meaningless, how the players are shams. I’m not going to pipe in on that. To paraphrase the late philosopher, Tug McGraw, 500 […]
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As almost all fans know by now, Marvin Miller did not make it into the Hall of Fame … again. Some sports columnists and pundits believe those on the selection committee are punishing Miller for his role in establishing a strong players’ union. For crying out loud, Barney Dreyfuss was voted in and he’s been […]
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John Helyar, author Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball, one of my favorite books on the business aspects of the national pastime, weighed in on the “outduction” of Marvin Miller in the latest Hall of Fame elections for executives, umpires, and managers. In a Page2 column on ESPN.com, Helyar wrote: The longtime […]
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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
Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
December 20, 2007
I heard about Curt Schilling’s lengthy entry on his Blog about the Clemens/PED. If you print it out, you can put in on your bookshelf, so even though I normally wouldn’t link to it, here it is. I’ve heard sports pundits discussing Clemens’ refutation of the allegations found in the Mitchell Report. They pretty much […]
Tagged as: Curt Schilling, Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens, steroids
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