Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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I frequently wonder about the role of book critics: Must they be students of the topics of which they read and report? Fans? That’s certainly not the case in this piece by Mark Dent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dent writes – with my annotations in brackets — The “summer” baseball book could have its own […]
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According to this AP story, “Taxpayers and ticket buyers are the losers in plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies to build the new Yankee Stadium….” And Mets fans shouldn’t be smug about it: “[Assemblyman Richard Brodsky] said the concerns about subsidies for private businesses without direct benefit to the public […]
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On the 20th anniversary of the publication of Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks: The Ultimate Huide to America’s Top Baseball Parks, Baseballmusings.com reports on its author, Bob Wood. This is definitely one title in desperate need of revision, bot only because there have been so many new ballparks built since, but in the change in […]
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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
