Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
From the category archives:
Happy Felsch was one of the cadre of Black Sox banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. Guess he wasn’t so happy after that. His best season was the last of his six-year career, all spent with Chicago, in which he had 40 doubles, 15 triples, 14 homers and 115 runs batted […]
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It might be a bit later, but Negron, a special advisor to the Yankees, will read from and sign his new book, The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie, tonight (July 25) at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant at 42 Central Park South in Manhattan New York, from 6pm-8pm. From the Gotham baseball blog: “The […]
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From the Sports Locker blog.
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Jerome Holtzman, “the dean” of baseball writers, died on July 19 at the age of 82. Holtzman, who wrote for the Chicago-Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune, created the save, which has gone through several incarnations over the years and came under attack as being a “meaningless statistic.” He was a recipient of the 1989 […]
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Baseball in Palau: Passion for the Game, “tells the story of the history of baseball in Palau since 1925 when Motoji Kono gathered together a group of young Palauans and said, “Let’s play ball!”
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From Bleacherreport.com.
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The Pastime.net reports the daily happenings at the 38th SABR convention, now wrapping up in Cleveland.
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Last week the SI MLB player poll asked about the most overrated athlete. This week, it’s the most underrated. Rays’ DH Cliff Floyd opens up a bit about his new team. Michael Farber profiles Marlin’s slugger Dan Uggla. Whither C.C. Sabathia? Yankees or not Yankees? Maybe I’m getting old, but I remember when playing Milton […]
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Has it really been 20 years? ESPNthemag.com has a five-part retrospective, featuring interviews with director Ron Shelton and actors Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner.
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The American Film Institute released its list of the top ten films in ten categories. Pride of the Yankees and Bull Durham came in third and fifth respectively in the Sports genre. The list includes: Raging Bull Rocky Pride of the Yankees Hoosiers Bull Durham The Hustler Caddyshack National Velvet Breaking away Jerry Maguire Talk […]
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Richard Sandomir, the sports media columnist for The New York Times, wrote this piece about the new Joe Jackson museum opening in Greenville, SC. “Admission is free but donations will be appreciated to augment the meager, privately financed budget. Marcley says there are enough Jackson fans to make this personal and passionate campaign succeed.”
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I was at the first one, when it was presented in New York City several years ago and highly recommend a visit. If you can’t get to the Hall of Fame, this is the next best thing. FIRST EXHIBIT TO HIGHLIGHT BASEBALL’S INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN CULTURE PLAYS ITS FINAL INNING IN BOSTON Museum of Science, […]
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“Godzilla” turns 34 today. The Amazon Report on Hideki Matsui: Godzilla Takes the Bronx: The Inside Story of Hideki Matsui Hideki Matsui: Sportsmanship, Modesty, and the Art of the Home Run It’s kind of interesting just reading the titles and how the book by the Asian author carries over the Japanese philosophy surrounding the game, […]
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This Friday, June 13. Please join us for a chance to win 2 free Cubs tickets, as well as meet author Lew Freedman of the highly acclaimed book, Then Ozzie Said to Harold: The Best Chicago White Sox Stories Ever Told. Tinley Park High School’s Baseball Team will conduct a treasure hunt in-store, as well […]
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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
* Wanted: Diversity
July 23, 2008
One of my new favorite writers is Dave Zirin, who makes sports into something more than box scores and trade rumors. In this article, on politicalaffairs.net, discusses the shameful lack of diversity in the recent Home Run Derby. Seems, odd, especially since, as Zirin mentions, more than 40 percent of MLBers are foreign-born.
Tagged as: Foreign-born baseball players
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