Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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American Library Association, Baseball Hall of Fame kick off “Step Up to the Plate @ your library®” National program teams up baseball and libraries to promote literacy skills The American Library Association and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum today officially launch the third season of the Step Up to the Plate @ […]
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In 1997, I wrote the following annotated bibliography about the integration of baseball for the MultiCultural Review, reproduced here in honor of Black History Month. It should be noted that there have been several additional books published during the interim on both African-American players and the Negro Leagues, including three biographies about Curt Flood, and […]
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One of my first regular gigs was writing an annual baseball book roundup for BookPage, a monthly publication available at libraries and bookstores. These, along with single reviews, appeared from 1998-2004 (still can’t quite figure out what happened to that). Anyway, thanks to my new toy from Issuu.com, I was able to make a nice […]
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After a shaky first quarter, the publishing giant made a nice comeback, posting a 3.3 percent sales increase for the period ending December 31. HC has published dozens of noteworthy titles, including, just to name a few The Story of Baseball: Third Revised and Expanded Edition, by Lawrence Ritter Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster […]
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The following is based on an article by Bob Cottrell, Margaret Heilbrun, Paul Kaplan (no relation), and Gilles Renaud from the Feb. 1 issue of Library Journal My comments appear in parenthesis; the writers’ in the indented paragraphs. The Code: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your- Own-Risk Code of Conflict, by Ross Bernstein. Triumph. March […]
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Potomac Books (formerly Brassey’s, Inc.) seems like an odd publisher for baseball titles. According to Kevin Cuddihy, an editor at the company, Potomac “has its roots in military history and has had a fair number of hits with political books.” The line of sports books began in 2000 and was the first “mainstream publisher of […]
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McFarland Publishers has a unique place in the world of baseball literature. Known for their eclectic academic work in the arts, sciences, humanities, etc. they also specialize in topics that might be considered extremely narrow in interest within the national pastime. In fact, it seems comfortable to say that if it were not for this […]
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There are similarities, according to Jon Friedman of Marketwatch. This wouldn’t be the first time that a baseball player was scorned by sportswriters for telling the truth and hurling a big exclusive in their faces. In 1970, the landmark “Ball Four” was published and set a standard for the genre of sports books. It was […]
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The excellent Bizofbaseball Web site features several reviews of books pertaining to its charter, including In the Best Interests of Baseball? and May The Best Team Win, by Andrew Zimbalist; The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, by Fay Vincent, and Lords of the Realm, by John Helyar, among others. As mentioned in the previous entry […]
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A while ago, I linked to this entry about why baseball and book publishing are alike. Here’s another take on the subject from the Issues in Publishing blog. In brief, the host, Fran Toolan remarks on : The analogy of authors as ‘players’. This fits on many levels. Authors have agents, players have agents. Authors […]
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The Canadian Press reported yesterday that “Joe Torre to recall his New York Yankees years in planned memoir.” The book, currently untitled, will be co-authored by Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci and will include Torre’s memories of the Yankees, with whom he won four World Series championships, and general thoughts on the game. Doubleday, an imprint […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
My article on Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series appears in
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
