Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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From Dan Shaughnessy’s Oct. 30 column in The Boston Globe: The baseball games are over for another season. For the next four months, it’s all about parades, trophy tours, Christmas collectibles, quickie books (maybe Stephen King will share his e-mails again), and the 24/7 roster tweaking that will consume Theo Epstein and his minions in […]
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Hard to believe he turned 70 earlier this year. Here he is in one of his classics routines. Enjoy.
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MLB has engaged an Italian consulting firm to deal with this ages-old problem. And an all-star barnstorming team will be coming to a Springfield near you.
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David Letterman on The Top Ten Reasons the Rockies Lost the Series.
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Guest host Frank Deford of Sports Illustrated and HBO talks to former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent and author Leigh Montville about Babe Ruth and the history of baseball. Vincent also appeared on Rose in 2004 with SI writer Tom Verducci to discuss another Rose: Pete.
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Frank Edwin “Tug” McGraw , 1944-2004
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Prompted by this review of Jonathan Mahler’s best-seller, and after finally having finished watching the miniseries, I have come away with a new appreciation for the televised version. Several weeks ago, I was skeptical about the project. I amend my criticism somewhat. Platt was an excellent Steinbrenner and most of the series depicted the difficulties […]
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As a sportswriter for the New York Post, Maury Allen had a front row seat for the tumultuous 1977 baseball season. The Yankees were in turmoil; the city was mired in social and economic woes that came to national attention when disastrous blackout struck; and a serial killer was on the loose. Jonathan Mahler brought […]
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I was listening to the Mets game today and came in the middle of a comment from one of their announcers. All I got was the suspicion by someone that Hank Aaron might have received payment for his congratulatory message to Barry Bonds following the record breaking home run. Now, coming in the middle of […]
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I received an advance copy of The Best American Sports Writing, 2007 yesterday. One of the first items I noticed, since I was scanning specifically for baseball, was Derek Zumsteg’s “Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever,” a deconstruction of the 1946 Looney Tunes classic, “Baseball Bugs,” in which the title character takes on a goonish bunch […]
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The New England Sports Network (NESN) launches, Sox Appeal, a reality show that seeks to help baseball fans find like minded loves. An article in the July 31 New York Times describes it as One part “Fever Pitch,” the other part “The Bachelor,” “Sox Appeal” takes a citizen — or hero, in the show’s vernacular […]
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The July 23 issue of TV Guide highlights the ESPN miniseries, The Bronx is Burning. The piece also pays homage to the TV baseball events that came before including: 61* — A 2001 HBO film starring Barry Pepper as Roger Maris in pursuit of the single season home run record held by the beloved Babe […]
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PRE-GAME FOX’s introduction — a bunch of players talking over each other about how special the All Star game is — made me think of James Earl Jones’ monologue in Field of Dreams; it even had that treacly FoD/The Natural music in the background. As much of a fan as I am, I found myself […]
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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
Commercial Parody: Post-Season annoyances
October 16, 2007
Every year, networks and stations broadcasting the playoffs and World Series try to create a buzz for non-baseball fans, informing them, basically, that they’d be morons not to watch these games. I can’t say for certain that the spokesman are not hardcore fans, but regardless, they can be quite annoying in their exuberance. Herewith, a […]
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