Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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A lot of fans proably forget that the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is also a library. I spent a great week up there several years ago, doing research for a book about baseball during the Korean War years. the staff couldn’t have been nicer, and the access of walking around like I belonged was […]
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Where were these classes when I was a student? Educator Seminar to Be Held In Cooperstown Workshop Presented By Baseball Hall of Fame And WestfieldCollege The Baseball Hall of Fame and Westfield State College will team up in November for a workshop designed to show teachers how to link baseball and education. “Using Baseball As […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame is hosting a program this weekend to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Hank Greenberg‘s rookie season. Not his debut (which actually occurred with a single at bat in 1930), mind you, but close enough for jazz. For more information, visit the MLB.com story.
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The 20th annual Symposium on Baseball and American Culture will be Wednesday through Friday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. The event will feature more than 50 presentations on baseball’s effect on American culture, the highest number in the history of the symposium, according to a news release. The event […]
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So where’s this merger of XM and Sirius I keep hearing about? When my wife leased her car, it came with a trial subscription to Sirius, which, of course, is the satellite radio station that does not carry the baseball channel. Nevertheless, I found this entertaining series of Baseball Confidential on iTunes and highly recommend […]
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(Because you can put the souvenir postcards of the plaques on a bookshelf.) For the first time ever, the Hall of Fame plaques of Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson will leave their home in Cooperstown, as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will travel the plaques to Memphis, Tenn., this weekend for a […]
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According to a press release issued this afternoon: Dale A. Petroskey, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, has resigned, effective immediately, the Executive Committee of the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors announced today. The Executive Committee issued this statement: “By mutual agreement, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors […]
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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
