Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Several new titles arrived over the past week including: Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs’ Glory Years, 1870-1945, by Randy Roberts and Carson Cunningham A People’s History of Baseball, by Mitchell Nathanson Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, by Paul Dickson (Of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary fame) The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball […]
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Last weekend’s interleague series between the Red Sox and Cubs was the impetus for this New York Times story that “reveals” the idea of throwing a World Series did not originate with the Black Sox of 1919, but the year before when Boston and Chicago last faced each other at Fenway Park. The Times’ piece […]
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With the Red Sox having broken their long, long streak without a World Championship, the Cubs are still standing at the wall, waiting to get into the dance. Chicago Heights Patch, one of the new trend of hyper-local sites, published this story about an appearance by Charles Billington, author of the 2005 book Wrigley Field’s […]
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Todd Ricketts, one of the owners of the Chicago Cubs, goes undercover within one of baseball’s most famous franchises and fights for the chance to redeem himself after being let go on the second day on UNDERCOVER BOSS, Sunday, Nov. 7 on CBS! Related articles Chicago Cubs Exec Throws a Curve to ‘Undercover Boss’ (dailyfinance.com) […]
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By George Castle (Lyons Press) As per the Seattle Times. First LaRussa, then Torre, now Pinella? Upshot: “[R]eaders will find a different Piniella than the man who managed the Mariners to four postseason appearances.”
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I have a copyright infringement issue. In describing the final weekend of the NFL regular season, the Dec. 29 digital issue Sporting News Today caries the headline “Crazy ’08.” Problem is, that title was already taken, by Cait Murphy in her excellent book about the Chicago Cubs. No doubt this was meant as an homage […]
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An Unofficial Journal of Baseball’s Best Fans, Volume #1 By Will Byington It takes a special person to be a Cubs fan. With such a rich history of failure and disappointment, some would call them masochists, but looking at the photos and reading the stories in Byington’s new book, they seem happy enough. (Of course, […]
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From the blog: Wrigley Field And from the book by the same name: The Boston Red Sox Though many would argue that the Chicago Cubs are the top club for white people, the Boston Red Sox remain the undisputed white franchise. In fact, were it not for the players, there would be no recorded instances […]
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From a Business Wire press release: The Chicago Sun-Times is proud to announce the publication of its stunning 84-page color glossy commemorative magazine, The Cubs: Their Thrilling 2008 Season, that catches the best of the thrilling 2008 season, as well as recaptures what it’s taken to get to where the Cubs are today. The Cubs: […]
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http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2008/0929_mid.jpgAfter a lengthy absence, baseball takes its rightful place on the cover with a story about Wrigley Field. Other baseball items include: That’s right, there are none.
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Fans have been talking incessantly about the Cubs’ failure to win a World Championship in the last 100 years. What often goes overlooked is how they got to that one. If it weren’t for the infamous baserunning blunder by a New York Giants rookie (actually playing in his second season), the Cubs’ futility record would […]
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A couple of noteworthy pieces in the Sept. 22 issue: “Chicago Style,” a collaborative effort on the White Sox and Cubs, full of entertaining factoids (102 according to the cover). “The Authenticators,” by Colin Fleming, on how to spot the real deal in the memorabilia world. including a sidebar on the Honus Wagner card
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for pitching thre first Cubs no-hitter in more than 35 years. Guess they have to update these now…
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Should the Cubs collapse once again, those fans might want to check out Cubstherapy.com, a site dedicated to healing the shattered psyches of those poor unfortunates who have hitched their star to the wrong wagon. This website has been 100 years in the making. Only a true Cubs’ fan understands the thrill, emotion and love […]
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When the Red Sox won their first World Championship in almost 90 years, it spawned a subgenre of baseball titles. What then, can we expect when (if) the Cubs follow suit this year after a century of frustration? Perhaps this is a portent of things to come. We Are Cubs Fans is a collection of […]
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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
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June 17, 2009
Time to play a little catch-up: From Pressboxonline.com, a Baltimore-sports oriented site, a review of Bert Randolph Sugar’s new coffee table book about the Hall of Fame. “[The author] left nothing out and I can’t think of a better way to educate those whom are grasping for a better understanding of baseball’s history than to […]
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