Review — Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe

Review by Ron Kaplan

<p>&quot;<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=329,height=500,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/fntasyland.jpg”><img title=”Fntasyland” height=”151″ alt=”Fntasyland” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/fntasyland.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>Fantasy baseball was developed more than 20 years ago by a group of bored guys in the publishing field who decided they could do a better job of putting a winning team together than the […]

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Author Profile: Dave Hollander

Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan

<h3 class=”entry-header”><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=160,height=241,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/hollanderheadshot_1.jpg”><img title=”Hollanderheadshot_1″ height=”150″ alt=”Hollanderheadshot_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/hollanderheadshot_1.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px” /></a> </h3> <div class=”entry-content”><div class=”entry-body”><p></p> <div style=”CLEAR: both”></div><strong>Rachmones for the underdog:<br />NJ author highlights athletes with scars, not stars, in new book</strong><br /><br />Despite the title of his new book, <em>52 Weeks: Interviews with […]

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Author interview: Tom Oliphant

Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan

<p>I met <a href=”http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-oliphant-thomas.asp”><span style=”color: #3f848a;”>Tom Oliphant </span></a>during at a discussion of his book, <em>Praying for Gil <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=170,height=144,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/oliphant_1.jpg”><img title=”Oliphant_1″ height=”84″ alt=”Oliphant_1″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/oliphant_1.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=170,height=144,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/oliphant.jpg”></a><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=358,height=475,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/mr_met.jpg”></a>Hodges</em>, held at the Yogi […]

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