Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Werber, who died in 2009 at the age of 100, was the last link to the 1927 NY Yankees, having spent a week on their bench while a freshman attending Duke. He played for five teams over 11 seasons, leading the Al in runs once and stolen bases three times. The Society for American Baseball […]
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Duke Magazine published this profile on Bill Werber, at 100 the oldest living ex-major leaguer, in its Sept./Oct. issue. He wrote about his experiences a few years ago in Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s. In yesterday’s Yankees-Orioles game, Emilio Navarro, who turns 103 on Sept. 26, threw out the […]
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who turns 100 today. For someone who played in the 1930s, Werber had some decent pop in his bat. He broke in with the 1930 NY Yankees, as a teammate of Babe Ruth. The best of his 11 seasons came in 1934, when he had career highs in runs scored (129), hits (200), doubles (41), […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
