Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Another example of using your place of work to promote your extracurricular activities. Here Chris DeLuca, a Sun-Times’ writer, teams up with artist John Hanley in a collaboration, Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field. Upshot: The book celebrates the rich history and bittersweet moments created by the players, managers, […]
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It just occurred to me why Cait Murphy’s book, Crazy ’08, has been receiving so much renewed attention. It’s the 100th anniversary since the Cubs won their last World Championship. Duh. (Click on the picture to go to the Crazy ’08 Web site.)
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by Steve Johnson, as critiqued in the Gary (IN) Post-Tribune. Upshot: Chicago Cubs fans will soon receive an opportunity to enjoy a gem that will give them an appreciation of the history and heritage of one of the country’s most beloved sports franchises.
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From The Arizona Republic, this piece on the author of Our Team – Our Dream: A Cubs Fan’s Journey Into Baseball’s Greatest Romance. Upshot: ” Look up ‘patience’ in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of a Chicago Cubs fan. “
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Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans Edited by Dan Gordon. Dana Press, 2008 You have to feel for Cubs fans. More so than Red Sox fans, who even before two championships in three years seemed to have a sense of entitlement, despite the team’s misfortunes and poor performances. Cubs rooters, […]
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This piece originally ran in NINE. I thought, with all the buzz about the Cubs wining the 2008 pennant, and perhaps more, it was time to post it. Bear in mind that some new books on the team have been published since, including Glenn Stout’s The Cubs. The Million-to-One Team: Why the Chicago Cubs Haven’t […]
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From libraryjournal.com, two brief reviews of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark and Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans. Interesting to note that these are two of the most historically snake-bitten teams when it comes to the post-season. (Thanks to reader Greg Spira.)
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Another team-devoted Web site, BleedingCubbieBlue.com, offers these reviews of The Cubs, by Glenn Stout, and First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, edited by Michael B. Long. Stout’s latest is much more entertaining, a coffee table book just meant for holiday giving. First Classis more scholarly. I’m reading that one now (or […]
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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 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
* Will Leech, er Leitch in the Times
May 26, 2008
Funny how the editor of Deadspin.com has such disdain against traditional journalism except when he seems to benefit from it. Case in point, his article on the Chicago Cubs in the New York Times‘ “Play” supplement. On the other hand, is the newspaper just as “guilty” of providing the forum? I’m just askin’…
Tagged as: Chicago Cubs, Deadspin, New York Times
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