Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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The author of such books as The As: A Baseball History; The Athletics of Philadelphia: Connie Mack’s White Elephants, 1901-1954; A Tiger in His Time: Hal Newhouser and the Burden of Wartime Ball; and Pete Rose: A Biography, died January 24 at the age of 91. From his obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer: [Jordan] was fanatical […]
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Catching up of some entries that were in my “draft” box. My initial response to beginning this eight-part series on Netflix was, this is kind of boring. And these guys curse a lot. But on further review, there’s a lot to recommend this in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at one of the game’s most storied franchises. Tops […]
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“). In addition, occasionally […]
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Now that the season is over, it’s time to look ahead to see what reading material will carry us over to “pitchers and catchers.” As with previous lists like this, I have omitted anything that falls into the general category of “romance novels.” Also, no books about trivia or designed for younger readers. In last […]
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As predicted, we have our first book commemorating the 2026 World Series: The book is published by USA Today. More info here. In addition, the Los Angeles Times just released Dynasty: The Dodgers’ Journey to Back-to-Back World Series Titles. And from the Los Angeles Daily News, we have Out of This World: How the Los Angeles […]
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“). In addition, occasionally […]
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A thought occurred to me as I was posting about the passing of Ryne Sandberg. Although I still subscribe to the physical edition of The New York Times, I also have the app which sometimes will publish several days ahead of the print version. I have frequently found that an obituary not not appear for […]
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“). In addition, occasionally […]
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My wife has been in a number of book groups over the past twenty or so years. Once a year, the husbands are invited to participate. In all that time, we’ve only discussed one book about sports (if you consider Lance Armstrong’s It’s Not About the Bike a sports book). So this story from the Washington […]
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Posting a bit earlier than usual today because we’re heading “down the shore” for a 5K run for organ donor awareness, sponsored by the New Jersey Sharing Network. My wife received a kidney from a friend in her book group, so we do this every year. If you feel like donating to this very worthy […]
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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
