Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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A previous entry on baseball poetry failed to include this item on “Casey at the Bat” from the OneMinuteReviews blog.
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New Englander Charles B. Pierce, author of Moving the Chains (a football book, regrettably) adds his usual amusing consideration to this piece on the Sox’ latest World Championship on Slate.com. And this bonus from Slate on why the Sox aren’t the Socks.
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So how long will it be until some publishing house signs the ex-Yankees skipper for a new tell-all tale about life with George? Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series: An Autobiography, written with Tom Verducci. Here’s an excerpt, courtesy of barnesandnoble.com. The ultimate manager also tried his hand a a business […]
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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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As the days dwindle down to a precious for for Baseball 2007, SI headlines with the LCS. Michael Wilbon noted on Pardon the Interruption that it might be hard to get behind the NCLS since the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks teams have been around only a relatively short time. It’s not like the cubs, […]
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Is it a case of sour grapes? Are some publishers and writers, having been spurned by the “greatest living player” piling on the unpleasant comments? Read Leon Neyfahk’s piece — “New Willie Mays Biography Comes With Strings Attached” — in the New York Observer and judge for yourself. “In exchange for his cooperation, Mr. Mays […]
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Baseball items will become more scarce until the post-season kicks in as college and pro football games become more prevalent. So enjoy it while you can. This week’s baseball items include: Photos of Clay Buchholz’s no-hitter over the Orioles A chart of possible 300-game winners “Hitting a fastball…with Chipper Jones” “Back to School Memories,” including […]
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They don’t make ’em like this anymore. At least not lately. The Whole Baseball Catalogue, edited by John Thorn and Bob Carroll (A Fireside Book, published by Simon and Schuester, 1990) has an excellent chapter on “Going by the Book: Baseball Between the Covers.” “You can have a complete library for approximately what it costs […]
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Away for a little R&R. Gone north, to Alaska, where they’ve been playing The Midnight Sun Classic for more than 100 years. See you after Labor Day.
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Many years ago, Louisville Slugger used to put out an annual yearbook that was available primarily as a premium through sport good stores. I found this interesting source at Scribd.com.
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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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<p><em>A program on the Feb. 10 broadcast of NPR’s </em>Only a Game <em>had an interesting topic, </em><a href=”http://www.onlyagame.org/shows/2007/02/20070210_14.asp”>Shakepeare as Sport</a>. <em>It reminded me of a review I did on the Bard of Avon, as well as another poet of the diamond." <p><em><strong>Shakespeare on Baseball</strong></em>, compiled by David Goodnough, Barricade Books. </p> <p><em><strong>O Holy Cow: The […]
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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
