Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Been a while since we’ve seen a new project from Peter Golenbock. But the wait is over. Reprinted with permission from his Facebook post: I have a new book coming in the spring that I want to tell you all about. In 1966 the baseball world was gripped by a book entitled The Glory of […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Since I began working at Trader Joe’s I find my time for intellectual pursuits such as reading and writing greatly curtailed. Truth is, I’m usually just too damn tired by the time I get home to delve into anything that requires too many brain cells. Since I only get a half-hour for lunch, there’s not […]
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These are my favorite posts, taking a look at what new baseball books are on the horizon. A few notes: Traditional print rules the land here here. There may be a Kindle edition involved, but no Kindle-only titles are included herein. Second, Amazon does not want top make my life easier. I practically never include […]
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They say Cardinals fans are among the most intelligent and passionate in the game. I’m sure followers of other teams might want to debate the notion. But if the request is made, someone should answer the call. In this case, the Vivo El Birdos potion of SB Nations says, “We need another book about the […]
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Haven’t been posting much lately but I have a good excuse. No, really, I have a better reason. Just contracted to do a book focusing on Hank Greenberg‘s 1938 season in which he put up a valiant fight to break Babe Ruth‘s single-season home run record of 60. The as-yet untitled project will also take […]
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Let me start off by saying I find Keith Hernandez quite enjoyable in his capacity as one of the TV announcers for the NY Mets. He speaks his mind and is quite informative and entertaining, even if he gets perhaps a tiny bit politically incorrect at times and falls into the old-vet-in-the-booth stereotype of saying […]
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I guess the just-retired future Hall of Famer wants to keep busy. Less than a week after appearing in his final game, Jeter announced the launch of The Players’ Tribune a new website promising to give fans (subscribers?) “a place where pro athletes can “connect directly with our fans, with no filter.” This was a […]
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Can you believe it’s been almost 30 years since the NY Mets won their last championship? That’s a generation. Not that I’m complaining. Could be worse (see, Chicago Cubs). But anniversaries are great for books and movies, so Heather Quinlan is taking up the challenge for ’86 Mets: The Movie. As you can tell from […]
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This it the time of year when the baseball media offer their considered opinions on their favorite prospects. Sometimes they’re spot on, other times, not so much. So I thought, why not apply this to the upcoming “rookie crop” of baseball books? That is, titles that are making their debuts in 2014 — no reprints/reissues […]
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Or maybe not, when it comes to a purported new book by Alex Rodriguez. Rob Neyer might read it, but it sounds like it would take more than $1 to make it worth his while.
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From Business-Standard.com: Alex Rodriguez is set to seal a multimillion-dollar deal for a tell-all book about his legal battle with Major League Baseball (MLB). The 38-year-old baseball player claimed that he would reveal full dirt of MLB’s tactics that were used against him, the New York Daily News reported. According to a source, HarperCollins and […]
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In The Baseball Uncyclopedia: A Highly Opinionated, Myth-Busting Guide to the Great American Game, authors Michael Kun and Howard Bloom write about the state of baseball literature.According to their calculations, there are: Books about the Yankees. Books about the Red Sox. Books about the Yankees and the Redd Sox. Books about players who played for […]
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John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, posted this piece about the launch of a new program, the Baseball Memory Lab. As Thorn explains: Baseball Memory Lab is a collaboration of MLB’s Origins Committee, which I chair, and MLB.com. Focusing on the intersection of personal history and baseball, this new forum initially will spotlight two aspects of […]
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No, not talking about jeans here. The book project is running apace, with almost 75 percent of the first draft done. By the way, feel free to drop me a line with suggestions. As I say in the intro (or will say), these are not necessarily the best books, but the ones I feel are […]
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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
Winding down and getting worked up
September 7, 2011
Almost done with the first go-around on Project 501. One thing that slows the process is that I want to re-read a lot of these books, which I will definitely do once I send the manuscript off to the publisher. Another thing that slows the process is that my typing skills are failing me, at […]
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