Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Had an unusual and fun experience on Tuesday. WNET/Channel 13 will broadcast the documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story on Monday, June 6, at 8 p.m. According to the program description on the website, “Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax and more greats are featured in this look at Jewish Americans and baseball.” Didn’t know […]
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(but not for too long, especially if it’s iced).
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For those collectors out there, or anyone interested in the “backstory” of things, this is on the MLB Network tonight at 10 eastern/7 Pacific.
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Better than Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It doesn’t get much better than this: Lost and baseball. Of course, there was baseball on Lost. Whereas this must have been left on the cutting room floor:
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Guess he missed making baseball movies so much, he had to do something to keep involved. And wouldn’t it be so cool if this earns Brian Wilson gets a new nickname: Santa.
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I looked and looked but could not find any on-line video for the scene in Field of Dreams in which a young Archie Graham stands in awe and rattles of the names of some of the ghost players that Shoeless Joe Jackson has recruited to play. Doesn’t this commercial from the MLB Network remind you […]
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Because you can keep a TV on your bookshelf: Who Do You Think You Are? : Tim McGraw NEW TV-PG NBC, 8 p.m. EST Tim McGraw researches his father’s past and discovers an industrious ancestor. The country singer/actor was 11 years old when he discovered that popular relief pitcher Tug McGraw was his father.
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Because you can keep a TV on your bookshelf: Hot in Cleveland Episode: Sisterhood of the Traveling SPANX (NEW) Joy ends up with a younger man; Melanie tries to catch the eye of a doctor; Victoria gets in cat fight with Melanie Griffith; Elka’s enhancement idea for Grady Sizemore. 10:00 P.M. on TVLAND
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Haven’t done one of these in awhile, so here goes. MLB.com posted this story about Andrew Zimablist, who published Circling the Bases: Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry last October. WithLeather blogs about Jose Canseco’s upcoming (and unpromising?) appearance on he new season of Celebrity Apprentice. Speaking of television, will baseball […]
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The two-time author (Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball) returns to the small screen on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice! At the risk of channeling Troy McClure, you might remember Canseco for such other memorable TV appearances […]
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Onion SportsDome Although I still miss Pilot episode, Part one Pilot episode, Part two Pilot episode, Part three
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The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Dec. 31,2010. Title Rank General The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis, by 2 Baseball Forecaster 2011, by Ron Shandler 3 Baseball Prospectus 2011 4 Beyond […]
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I’m 95 percent certain this Tampa-based reporter did a piece from Yankees Fantasy camp when I was down there last year (wish I could find that video). It seems hypocritical of me to say another journalist shouldn’t be allowed to do a first-person story, but he makes the rest of us look bad, dressed in […]
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(A nod to one of my favorite old lawyer shows, Judd for the Defense, which starred Carl Betz, who played the father on The Donna Reed Show, which once featured a guest appearance by Willie Mays.) Anyway… I was watching the Top Defensive Plays of 2010 in the MLB Network (A TV fits on my […]
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The popular Chicago Cubs and White Sox third baseman died Wednesday at the age of 70. At the heyday of my fanhood — 1969 — the Cubs were the hated enemy and Santo was the epitome of the arrogant, self-entitled rival, deeming the Mets unworthy to shine the shoes of the Chicagoans. But later in […]
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Unfortunately, one incident can define your life. Just ask Bill Buckner. Gil McDougald, who died Nov. 28 at the age of 82, was a solid player for the juggernaut Yankees teams of the 1950s, averaging 14 home runs, 76 RBIs, and .276/.356/.410 for 10 seasons. He was Rookie of the Year in 1951, a five-time […]
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My daughter was playing in her school’s band at last night’s Texas-Illinois game at MSG, the night-cap of the Coaches Against Cancer tournament. While I was waiting for her to come home (the game went into overtime and the kids didn’t return until about 1:30 a.m.), I was flipping through the dial and found this […]
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The MLB Network will broadcast Thursday’s Silver Slugger Awards, given to the best offensive player at each position. Why not, they have to do something to fill the time between now and spring training. I would love a marathon movie schedule once a week, bringing back all those movies that don’t get played ad nauseum, […]
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“ESPN Breaks Up Sunday Night Baseball Team Of Jon Miller And Joe Morgan” I know a lot of people had problems Morgan, citing his monotonous prattle and over-analysis, but frankly, I don’t care who the announcers are. In fact, call me perverse, but I find the more they annoy, the more enjoyable the game. In […]
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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
Well, that was…interesting
January 12, 2011
So I watched the Onion SportsDome last night. Meh. Michael Hale of The New York Times said it best in his review yesterday: Some of these segments are quite amusing, but they’re rarely more amusing than they would have been if published in The Onion (the newspaper or the Web site). You get the sense […]
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