Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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For some, it’s Christmas catalogs. For others, it’s gardening. For me, it’s book catalgs from publishing houses. The Fall/Winter ’08 issue from University of Nebraska just arrived and, past being prelude, there are some interesting baseball titles sprinkled throughout. Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Change Japanese Baseball, by Robert K. Fitts: In an odd switch, […]
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Peter Morris, who was twice won SABR’s prestigious Seymour Award, comes out with this new book, subtitled “An Informal History of baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1970.” Due out in March from Ivan R. Dee, it’s yet another look at the origins of the game as it moved from an amateur pastime to what would become big […]
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The publisher-to-be-named-later for Vindicated has been announced. And the award goes to: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, who expects the book to be released in time for opening day. According to an item in today’s New York Times, Jennifer Bergstrom, publisher of Simon Spotlight, said Bret Saxon, Canseco’s book agent, called her […]
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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.
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
