Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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David Eckstein, who enjoyed a ten-year career that included a World Series MVP award, has a new book out (made its debut on the BBS list last week) which he discusses here. Meanwhile, Hall of Famer Dave Winfield also has a new book out (official release date Sept. 15), which he discusses here. I miss titles like The […]
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1979: Rickey Henderson makes his Major League debut with the Oakland As, going 1-4 and stealing the first of his 1,406 bases in a 5-1 loss to the Texas Rangers. Rickey Henderson: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant (2022) Off Base: Confessions of a Thief, by Henderson with John Shea […]
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When I saw Richard Sandomir’s article in The New York Times last year about about Jeff Katz , the Mayor of Cooperstown who writes about baseball, I thought: there but for the grace of God…. My wife, a veterinarian, had a chance to get a job in Cooperstown way back when our daughter was two. […]
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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
* Book Review: Dropping the Ball
November 4, 2008
Bill Jordan of BaseballReflections.com critiques Dave Winfield’s “how-to-fix-it” title. Upshot: Overall, Winfield presents a very interesting argument and while some of his proposed bandages to this problem may be a bit much, especially at this time, he may be pointing the baseball world in the right direction. While his issues may have to take a […]
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