Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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As an unabashed Mets fan I’ll read anything about the team. Of course, this non-discriminatory policy can lead to some time-wasting clunkers. On the other hand, there are some time-wasters that can be lots of fun (you’re reading this, after all). Mets by the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Amazin’ Mets by Uniform […]
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This library Web site suggests that stat-heads have a long and proud history in Spalding’s Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 which is available on-line thanks to the Guttenberg Project via Internet Archive.
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…but no one does anything about it. But Yankfan vs. Soxfan has a good idea on how to denote the statistics of questionable players. * # & ? (etc.)
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Not that he’s been out of the media eye lately, but Barry Bonds’ recent achievement has given new life not only to books about him, but to the writing profession as a whole. You have the philosophical/scientific communities arguing about the ethical issues and whether or not performance enhancing drugs can actually help a batter […]
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I’ve long been interested in philosophy. Or rather the concept of philosophy, with all its thoughtfulness and intellectual pursuits. So I wondered what that community had to say about Bonds’ potentially questionable methods en route to 756. Herewith a sample: From Uselesstree: The un-Way of Barry Bonds When we try too hard to reach a […]
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In a previous post, I wrote that The Sporting News would no longer be printing it’s annual baseball record book. True to their word, however, they have made it available on-line at no charge. The sections, rendered as PDF files, are divided into an Introduction and user’s guide; regular season (yearly leaders, career milestones, general […]
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<p>In this corner, wearing a red cover, <em>Who’s Who in Baseball. </em>In the other corner, changing many times over the years, <em>The Baseball Register</em> published by <em>The Sporting News.</em></p> <p><em><strong><span style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Who’s Who in Baseball</span></strong></em></p> <p><em><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=979,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kentwwib_2.JPG”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=979,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kentwwib_3.JPG”><img title=”Kentwwib_3″ height=”306″ alt=”Kentwwib_3″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/kentwwib_3.JPG” width=”250″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: […]
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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><span face=”Times New Roman” style=”font-size: 0.8em;”><strong>The following post comes courtesy of Greg Spira from a recent SABR list-serve distribution.</strong></span></p> <p class=”MsoNormal” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><p><span face=”Times New Roman”> <a href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/ssbeltran_3.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=325,height=443,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”><img alt=”Ssbeltran_3″ title=”Ssbeltran_3″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/ssbeltran_3.jpg” width=”85″ height=”115″ border=”0″ style=”float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;” /></a> </span></p></p> […]
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The New Ballgame: Understanding Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan, by Glenn Guzzo (ACTA Sports). A brief review of a brief book. Guzzo does a nice job explaining the key stats to newcomers to the game who want to enhance their experience by adding that numerical component, rather than “just watching.” He also offers an […]
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The Sporting News and its parent company, American City Business Journals, have decided to suspend publication of the Baseball Guide and the Complete Baseball Record and Fact Book. There will be no 2007 edition of the Guide, and the 2007 edition of the Record and Fact Book will not appear in print. These decisions were […]
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I’ve been meaning to make a list of my baseball library for some time, but found the prospect too daunting. Util recently. Thanks to Librarything.com, all one has to do is (usually) type in the ISBN number or title and all the info is provided in a nice format of the cataloguer’s choosing. So far, […]
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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
Report: Do Umpires Discriminate?
August 22, 2007
Charges of “ism” — racism, sexism, agism, etc. — always make for hot topics and the media loves to jump on any information, sometimes a bit too quickly, or without fully understanding the material/source/etc. Case in point: In the Aug. 13 edition of Time magazine, Katie Rooney asks the button-pushing question “Are Baseball Umpires Racist?” […]
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