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

Review — Baseball Roundup, Fall '05

Brief reviews from Bookreporter.com including: <ul><li>Praying for Gil Hodges, by Thomas Oliphant </li> <li>Brooklyn Remembered, by Maury Allen </li> <li>You Never Forget Your First </li> <li>Last Time Out</li></ul> <a href=”http://www.bookreporter.com/features/051021-baseball.asp”>Read the whole review from Bookreporter.com</a>.

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Review — Burying the Black Sox

Review by Ron Kaplan

Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, May/June 2006<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=150,height=225,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/buryingtheblacksoxbookcover.jpg”><img title=”Buryingtheblacksoxbookcover” height=”150″ alt=”Buryingtheblacksoxbookcover” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/buryingtheblacksoxbookcover.jpg” width=”100″ 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/burying.jpg”></a> “The scandal … was not ‘eight men out’ for throwing the series,” writes the author in his new take on the most […]

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Review — Ed Delehanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball

Review by Ron Kaplan

Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, May/June 2004 “One of the charming qualities about baseball is that a fan from a hundred years ago would easily recognize the modern game. Little has changed: there are still four bases, nine innings, and three strikes, you’re out. “Ed Delehanty is also recognizable — a stereotypical player who could have […]

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Review — Few and Chosen: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras

Review by Ron Kaplan

<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/fewchosen.jpg”><img title=”Fewchosen” height=”100″ alt=”Fewchosen” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/fewchosen.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, January/February 2002 "Next to the Marines, the New York Yankees are the epitome of ‘the few and the proud.’ Throughout their major league existence–more precisely since they "stole" Babe […]

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

Review by Ron Kaplan

"<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”> <div style=”CLEAR: both”></div>Rachmones for the underdog: NJ author highlights athletes with scars, not stars, in new book Despite the title of his new book, 52 Weeks: Interviews with […]

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Author interview: Tom Oliphant

Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan

I met <a href=”http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-oliphant-thomas.asp”>Tom Oliphant </a>during at a discussion of his book, 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, held at the Yogi […]

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