Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Rickey Henderson becomes the third player — joining Ted Williams and Willie McCovey — to hit home runs in four decades. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant (2022) Off Base: Confessions of a Thief, by Henderson with John Shea (1992) Born this date: David Wells Perfect I’m […]
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I’m surprised it’s taken this long for players who have written books to come out against Joe Torre. David Wells — no stranger to controversy himself — evidently called his former manager a “punk” for breaking “the code” and dishing dirt. The story, reported here by the New York Daily News, offers Wells’ thoughts: “When […]
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The hefty lefty turns 45 today. He’s still looking for a job, so if some struggling is looking for a crafty veteran….Hey, he can’t be that much worse than some of the other slugs out there. Legend has it that the title for his book was supposed to be Perfect I Ain’t, but the publisher […]
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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
