Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. (See my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks.”) In addition, occasionally […]
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]
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Ever notice when a book comes out, some outlets immediately look for one or two negative things the author might write in an attempt to build buzz? Oooh, someone said something about a teammate, owner, or organization (google for news about A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, by Selena Roberts or The Yankee Years, […]
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♦ My review of Tyler Kepner’s The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series is up on Bookreporter.com. ♦ Joe Maddon’s Try Not to Suck continues to get the biggest buzz for a book that’s not about the World Series. Here’s a piece from the LA Times. ♦ Meanwhile Jeff Pearlman’s new bio, The […]
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Bo Jackson turns 48 today. The pop culture icon published Bo Knows Bo, Autobiography of a Ballplayer with Dick Schaap in 1990.
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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
