Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Looks my complaining hasn’t tailed off over the last decade. I understand that space is limited in book review sections, but when there’s a special “roundup” of sports books and no baseball titles are included, that’s something I can’t ignore. FYI, the “Y U No Love” meme was very popular back in the day. Ask your […]
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This New York Times piece in a recent Book Review supplement that talks about the decline and death of the “mass paperback” was the inspiration for today’s Throwback Thursday entry. Before the invention of the e-reader, people actually had to carry around books. Can you imagine? But the publishing industry was considerate. They came up […]
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From December 14, 2016: “How do you solve a problem like too many baseball books?”
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From November 26, 2007. I miss Sports Illustrated. But then, I miss a lot of print publications, including the one I used to work for from 2004-2016. After more than 20 years working for a religious non-profit organization, I was unceremoniously downsized. It took almost two years but after doing some freelance work for the […]
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Originally posted January 29, 2010, this post has been viewed more than any other: more than 23,000 times. “J.D. Salinger, Terence Mann, and Field of Dreams.” Let’s keep those comments coming in, folks.
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A trio of titles includes: STEALING GAMES: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants, by Maury Klein THE SELLING OF THE BABE: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend, by Glenn Stout KINGS OF QUEENS: Life Beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets, by Erik Sherman Back in the day, […]
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Can’t recall when I heard of Remind, a publication geared towards the ME-TV generation with articles and other pieces that drip nostalgia. The May 2024 edition was devoted to “The Joy of Baseball: Celebrating America’s Pastime, on the Field and in the Movies.” Among the stories: The 25 Best Baseball Movies Ever (no surprise the list […]
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Can you believe it: The Baseball Bookshelf turns 20 this year! That’s not totally accurate because there were a couple of iterations of this blog before it took its current name and form so I’m guessing the age is closer to 25. In any case, I’ve decided it might be fun to look back at […]
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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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
Throwback Thursday review: This Great Game
January 7, 2016
In a sense, this is the book that launched more than a thousand books, the first in what became an obsession. This Great Game, published in 1971 by Routledge Press under the imprimatur of Major League Baseball, was an anthology, a of marvelous collection of photos and illustrations and narratives from some of the great […]
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