Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Don Amore from the Hartford Courant published this piece, pursuant to all the hubbub about the release yesterday of the Rodriguez biography. I have absolutely no quibble with his selection of Ball Four as his pick for the Babe Ruth/Hank Aaron/Cy Young of baseball books. But when he includes Spakry Lyle’s The Bronx Zoo among […]
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As he did last year, Tom Hoffarth took on the arduous challenge of providing his readers of the Los Angeles Daily News with a baseball book review a day. The result is an excellent look at some of the top books on the game, as well as some that might have fallen under the radar. […]
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BA also puts out an annual list of baseball titles.
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See previous entry. I am reproducing the Herculean effort of our friend Greg Spira of 2009 titles, as posted on the SABR list-serve today. There are almost 140 titles here (see his caveats) so you will all forgive me if I don’t follow my usual formatting style. The only knock is that he does not […]
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Brought to you by the folks who produce the Sports-reference sites. The site basically consists of links to lists category. There’s no commentary here, but it’s still a fair source for basic publishers’ info. That said, the link to new releases is woefully inadequate, listing only 46 books and DVDs at this point, with a […]
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The Seattle Literature Examiner posted this piece on the best baseball books that doesn’t so much list or review in itself, save for a mention of Baseball and Philosophy, as it does point to two existing lists, which I replicate here: Baseball Books: A Reading List, via The New York Times (1997-2003 titles) “Baseball fiction […]
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USA Today published this list of “Five authors make a pitch for baseball.” I wonder how hard Milano’s PR people are pushing the book. To be honest, I have not read it and want to be fair. But to have hers get top billing over thoughtful and laborious efforts by the likes of Paul Dickson, […]
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Dermont McEvoy of Publishers Weekly published the magazine’s annual baseball roundup. No surprise, but this year’s selections are heavy on the “bad boy” books, including Selena Robert’s A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez (April, Harper Collins). PW contacted Roberts’s editor at HarperCollins, senior v-p/ executive editor David Hirshey. Hirshey, who in the past has […]
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Alex Belth, author of Stepping Up: The Story of All-Star Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players’ Rights, posts a list of book suggestions on his Brxon Banter blog (say that fast 10 times). About half of them seem to be those titles commemorating Yankee Stadium.
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Been a bit remiss in recent weeks, so trying to catch up with a roundup of items: BaseballFarming.com offers a list of “Baseball Books to Love,” which includes fiction and non-fiction titles. Prior to 2008, baseball didn’t have to sully itself with official instant replay, but since it did, might as well bone up on […]
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The Chicago Sun-Times recently offered a list of gift books, as comprised by some of its writers. Of the seven suggestions, Two baseball titles made the grade: Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos and Memorabilia, by Julia Ruth Stevens and Bill Gilbert; and Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The […]
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“…Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying books.” Look for other publishers to follow suit. And we all know where baseball/sports books fall on the foot chain.
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Humbly submitted via the pages of ForeWord Magazine, this non-fiction list of RK’s “essential” baseball reading. I’ll be working on a fiction version soon.
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From the Suite101.com folks. Includes non-fiction, fiction, and “bullpen” (whatever that means) choices.
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Posted the second list before the first, so here it is: Ball Four (Jim Bouton, 1970) | This book changed everything about how we cover and view sports and the people who play them. It also almost got me and my friend Prisby thrown out of sophomore English because we kept reading passages out loud […]
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MyrtleBeachOnline’s sports columnist Sean Horgan offered a list of 20 great sports books, including the following baseball titles, listed in his order: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, (Bill James, 1986) This book changed the way many people looked at baseball, encompassing history, anecdotes and statistical analysis. The Great American Novel (Philip Roth, 1973) Roth […]
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September can be a happy or bittersweet month. For the minor league call-ups, this might be the start of a major league career or a mere cup of coffee. For those who have been in the game a long while, it might mark the end of their time in the bigs. Among those who made […]
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Sorry, a little late on this one. Holiday, and all. *** General: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis Yankee Stadium, the Official Retrospective, by Al Santasiere Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H.A. Dorfman […]
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General: Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed, by J.C. Bradbury The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition. The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H A Dorfman Essays and Writings: Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the […]
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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
* Welcome to the club
April 30, 2009
I always enjoy finding pieces on baseball lit from unexpected sources. Here’s one more. The question stemmed from a previous entry on the Alyssa Milano book.
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