Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf — If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here — Page 334

Peter Golenbock interview

Reviews from other sources

<p>Bob Andelman, aka Mr. Media, posted this in-depth <a href=”http://www.mrmedia.com/2007/03/fridays-with-mr-media-peter-golenbock7.html”>interview with Peter Golenbock, author of 7</a>, the already-controversial-though-not-yet-released novel about Mickey Mantle.</p> <p>A veteran of such notable baseball titles as <em>Dynasty; The Bronx Zoo</em>, which he wrote with Sparky Lyle; <em>Balls</em>, (Craig Nettles); <em>Guidry</em> (Ron Guidry); <em>Number One (</em>Billy Martin); and <em>Wild, High, and Tight</em>, […]

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A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration

Review by Ron Kaplan

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here are some items that consider the contributions of the Irish in the establishment of the national pastime. Ed Delehanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball, by Jerrold Casway (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) One of the charming qualities about baseball is that a fan from a hundred […]

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RIP, Bowie Kuhn

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=350,height=277,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kuhn_williams_nixon_top.jpg”><img title=”Kuhn_williams_nixon_top” height=”118″ alt=”Kuhn_williams_nixon_top” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/kuhn_williams_nixon_top.jpg” width=”149″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a><a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/sports/baseball/16kuhn.html”> Bowie Kuhn</a> passed away yesterday at the age of 80. For some reason, he makes me think of Richard Nixon. Probably because he held office at the same time as the President and […]

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Bits and Pieces

Bits and Pieces

<p>Denny McClain, one of baseball’s favorite convicted felons, is scheduled to be <a href=”http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=3046″>keynote speaker</a> at Middle Tennessee State University’s  annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture on March 30. <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=240,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mclain.jpg”></a></p> <p>McClain, the last pitcher to win 30 games, has just released his autobiography, <em>I Told You I […]

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Random House offer's audio clips

Industry/Literary Analysis

Random House just launched a new service that allows shoppers to listen to clips from audio books. Presently, there are three baseball titles. Click on the graphic to play the clip. Emperors and idiots, written by Mike Vacarro, read by Richmond Hoxie Moneyball, written and read by Michael Lewis Coach, written and read by Michael […]

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Baseball across the seas

Baseballinternational.com has a separate link for titles about baseball in far away lands. While by no means complete — most of the books are less than five years old — there are a nice bunch of volumes about the game as played in Japan and Asia, Italy, Australia, Cuba and Latin America, and the Caribbean. […]

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Children's titles

Reviews from other sources

As a rule, I don’t critique kids’ books. I just find it too difficult to write more words in a review than are contained in the book itself (especially for the 4 to 8-year-old crowd), and writing about illustrations will only go so far. So here’s a roundup of five children’s titles from the Ocean […]

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Bits and Pieces

Two items for your consideration: 108mag This new publication (they launched in the summer of 2006) “celebrates the contribution of baseball to American history, culture, and community.” It has a fairly impressive cast of contributors, including John Thorn, author and editor of such works as Total Baseball, Treasues of the Baseball Hall of Fame, The […]

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Who says kids don't learn anything in college?

Reviews from other sources

That’s one of the nice things about baseball: it’s sense of history can reach out to all age groups. This set of four capsule reviews by a student at Swarthmore includes titles — Lardner on Baseball and The Bad Guys Won — that are obviously out of his contemporary memory.

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Bits and pieces

Industry/Literary Analysis

<p>Brendan Roberts, the <em>Sporting News</em> fantasy baseball columnist, penned a <a href=”http://fantasy.sportingnews.com/baseball/experts/brendan-roberts/20070306.html”>profile of John Benson</a>, one of the gurus of roto who is so sought-after for his advice that he commands a fee of $150 an <strong>hour</strong>.</p> <p></p>

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Bookshelf review: Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese Baseball

by Kerry Yo Nakagawa. Rudi Publishing, 2002. Since Horace Wilson, an American schoolteacher in the “land of the rising sun,” introduced baseball to his students in 1872, Japanese have been mad for the game. The author, a writer, actor, filmmaker, and director of the Nisei Baseball Research Project, chronicles this fervor. Like their European counterparts, […]

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Bits and Pieces

Reviews from other sources

<p>Every now and then I thought I would be a nice guy and suggestion some links on baseball books that might be useful and/or enjoyable. Rather than save them all up for one long post, I thought I’d place ’em as I find ’em.</p> <ul><li>A list of more than 40 books reviewed in <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/baseball-books.html”><em>The […]

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Bookshelf review: Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation

by William C. Kashatus. Penn State Press, 2006. Albert Charles “Chief” Bender was one of the best pitchers of the early 20th century, a stalwart for Connie Mack Philadelphia Athletics from 1903-17. During that time (with a one-game comeback in 1925 with the Chicago White Sox) he won more than 210 games and compiled an […]

Tagged as: Chieg Bender, Native Americans

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A welcome resource

<p>Since all matter of material ends up on my bookshelf, it’s not out of the perview to report that <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=275,height=387,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/65tsn.jpg”><img title=”65tsn” height=”211″ alt=”65tsn” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/65tsn.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a><a href=”http://paperofrecord.com/”>Paperofrecord.com</a> has recently discontinued charging for its content, which includes newspapers from around the world. […]

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Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs

by Doug Feldman. Unversity of Nebraska Press, 2006. Fans of a certain age will recall some of the great collective let-downs in the game ‘s history: After cruising for most of the 1951 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers let the New York Giants catch them. The Philadelphia Phillies were running away with the pennant in 1964 […]

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7 Update

Industry/Literary Analysis

<p>According to <a href=”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_en_ot/books_mickey_mantle”>a report in the Associated Press</a>, Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, will release <em>7: The Mickey Mantle Novel</em> on April 3, with a planned first printing of 250,000, the largest in the company’s history.</p> <div id=”ynmain”><div id=”storybody”><p></p></div></div>

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Whither Golenbock's Mickey Mantle novel?

Industry/Literary Analysis

<p>Peter Golenbock’s controversial <em>7: The Mickey Mantle Novel</em> has already had a <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=240,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/7_1.jpg”><img title=”7_1″ height=”250″ alt=”7_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/7_1.jpg” width=”250″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=240,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/7.jpg”></a>checkered life. The book, which depicts Manlte as a flawed man, was originally supposed to be […]

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Battling Registers

<p>In this corner, wearing a red cover, <em>Who’s Who in Baseball. </em>In the other corner, changing many times over the years, <em>The Baseball Register</em> published by <em>The Sporting News.</em></p> <p><em><strong><span style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Who’s Who in Baseball</span></strong></em></p> <p><em><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=979,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kentwwib_2.JPG”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=979,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kentwwib_3.JPG”><img title=”Kentwwib_3″ height=”306″ alt=”Kentwwib_3″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/kentwwib_3.JPG” width=”250″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: […]

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Magazines are books, too…sort of

Industry/Literary Analysis

<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><span face=”Times New Roman” style=”font-size: 0.8em;”><strong>The following post comes courtesy of Greg Spira from a recent SABR list-serve distribution.</strong></span></p> <p class=”MsoNormal” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><p><span face=”Times New Roman”> <a href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/ssbeltran_3.jpg” onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=325,height=443,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false”><img alt=”Ssbeltran_3″ title=”Ssbeltran_3″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/ssbeltran_3.jpg” width=”85″ height=”115″ border=”0″ style=”float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;” /></a> </span></p></p> […]

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The New Ballgame

The New Ballgame: Understanding Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan, by Glenn Guzzo (ACTA Sports). A brief review of a brief book. Guzzo does a nice job explaining the key stats to newcomers to the game who want to enhance their experience by adding that numerical component, rather than “just watching.” He also offers an […]

Tagged as: Baseball News, Bill James, statistics

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