Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Alan Gratz’s Brooklyn Nine, the story of a young Jewish boy’s love for baseball in the early 20th century, is featured on the cover of the September issue of Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association. The issue highlights a sports theme and includes a number “top 10” choices in several categories, such as […]
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Where were lectures like this when I was in college? Prof. Timothy B. Shutt from Kenyon College offers this eight-plus-hour rendering of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The History of Baseball in America.” Here’s the Course Overview from rbflim.com: “Baseball has been celebrated as “America’s National Pastime” for more than one hundred and […]
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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
