Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Voting franchise, that is. From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Frick Award Ballot Voting Begins Online Tomorrow — Fan Vote Will Place Three Names on Final Ballot — Thousands of baseball fans have already used Facebook to stay connected to their heroes at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Now, they can nominate […]
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Or at least Bill Lee. From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame Teams Up with NASAto Help Students Bring Baseball to Mars COOPERSTOWN, NY – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has its sights set on Mars. And its plans just might include bats, gloves and balls – if some Central New York […]
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From the Salt Lake Tribune. Upshot: Open and book anywhere and begin. “The fun is to know what’s on the inside,” he said. “That was story I wanted to tell.” Bert Sugar’s Hall of Fame is a tale well told.
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Zev Chafets, author of Cooperstown Confidential, published this Op-Ed piece in the June 19 edition of The New York Times (“Let steroids into the Hall of Fame“). will Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, et al now become loyal Times readers? [T]oday’s superstars have lawyers and a union. They know how to use the news media. And […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will host a blood drive, sponsored by the American Red Cross in conjunction with Bassett Healthcare, on Saturday, June 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Museum’s Education Gallery. Blood donors will receive free admission to the Museum on Saturday, and Museum members will receive […]
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This item popped up in my Google alerts. Fifty years ago (June 10, to be precise), Colavito — who played primarily for the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians from the mid-1950s to late 1960s — became the sixth batter in the modern era to hit four homers in one game. (By the way, this may […]
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From the MLB portion of Fanhouse.com, this piece on Zev Chafets‘ new and controversial book on the Hall of Fame. And another from The Hardball Times. Upshot: Chafets doesn’t portray himself as a baseball expert, a la Bill James. He clearly is a fan of the game—and a passionate one—make no mistake about it, but […]
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By Allen Barra, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Upshot: “Cooperstown Confidential” is bold, intelligent, gutsy. [Author Zev] Chafets is strongest on what is soon to be the next controversy of the Hall — steroids. and … if you don’t like Roger Clemens — and there are so many who don’t that one questions why the authors […]
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Allen Barra, author of the new biography on Yogi Berra, gives his considered opinion on two other titles that deal with the Hall of Fame: Zev Chafets’ assessment of the problem of the Hall of Fame, and the quartet of NY Daily News writers on a pitcher who would have been a lock to earn […]
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These days, publishing companies are calling on their authors to do even more in terms of getting the word out about their new projects, be it web sites, blogs, or videos such as this one by Chafets, whose Cooperstown Confidential (Bloomsbury) comes out in July. He wrote this commentary on A-Rod (who hit a home […]
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Hall of Fame, American Library Association Partner To Tell Story of Pride and Passion Traveling Exhibit Dedicated To African-American Baseball Experience Making Its Way To 50 Libraries Around America (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the American Library Association have teamed up to help tell the story of the […]
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. The election of Jim Rice to the Baseball Hall of Fame will necessitate author Kevin Hunt to re-write at least part of his manuscript — and definitely update the title, which was The Baseball Hall of Fame: Why Jim Rice Belongs There and Mark McGwire Does Not, For […]
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From the Baseball Hall of Fame: Special opportunity for summer Internship The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is now accepting applications for the 2009 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development. This summer-long internship offers meaningful, hands-on training in numerous professional careers as well as the chance to learn and […]
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Congratulations to Joe Gordon, the only player elected by the Veteran’s Committee for induction into the Hall of Fame. Any volunteers?
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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 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
* New titles from Bloomsbury
December 2, 2009
Their official spring-summer 2010 catalog isn’t online yet, but Bloomsbury is printing one new title and a 2009 title with a new afterword. The new title is Charlie Finley: The Life of Baseball’s Super Showman, a joint effort by G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius, slated for a July release. From the catalog: Before […]
Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Bloomsbury, Charlie Finley, Zev Chafets
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