Bill James has left the building. I remember picking up the first edition of his Baseball Abstract when it first became commercially available in the late 1980s. Since then, his work has become synonymous with clever analysis, as opposed to just a collection of numbers one could find in various encyclopedias. The Walk-Off Edition, the […]
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Dieis available on Amazon.com,
Also available at BN.com.
Free 501 checklist available (Excel/spreadhseet format). Makes it fun to check off which books you've read and handy to bring to the bookstore or library to get what you still want to read. Send your request via email to ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf (@)gmail(dot)com.
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Ron by Roth
In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Book contributions and most recent articles
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
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Dust to dust
Commentary by Ron KaplanApropos of the previous post… A member of the Baseball Books group on Facebook posted about The Complete Handbook of Baseball, one of those paperbacks that would come out every spring. I countered with my run of these guys (representative photo). These had team profiles with mini-bios of each club’s major contributors; some editions preceding […]