Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Sort of. As a fan of a certain age, I have trouble reconciling the stature of more recent players voted into the Hall of Fame against some of the legends of the game. Are we really comparing modern candidates with the likes of Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, or Mickey Mantle, to name just three? I know […]
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When did Fred Wilpon become George Steinbrenner? Perhaps the pressure of the season — with all the Madoff business, the rumors about being forced to sell the team, etc. — have finally gotten to the Mets owner. at least that’s what some might say given this story in The New Yorker. I have not read […]
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The all-star, gold-glove Mets outfielder turns 31 today. The Amazon Report on Carlos Beltran: Pedro, Carlos, and Omar: The Story of a Season in the Big Apple and the Pursuit of Baseball’s Top Latino Stars, by Adam Rubin. You can read a review from “Yankees 2000” here.
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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
