Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Wives of the Detroit Tigers baseball players have written The ABCs of Detroit Tigers Baseball, a children’s book that covers the game of baseball from A to Z. The book is illustrated by Bryan Durren and Craig Jablonski, two graphic designers from Ilitch-owned Little Caesars. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the […]
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From the Traverse City Record-Eagle, this feature on Bill Anderson and his newest edition of The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tiger History.
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From the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the first of a two-parter on historical books about the Tigers. The premise of this piece on The Perfect Season seems quite different. The author went through every Detroit season and pieced together the best wins in franchise history. The first chapter tells the story of the best opening-day win, […]
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In today’s New York Times — and with the closing of both new York stadiums after the 2008 season — Nick Bunkley writes about the demolition of Tiger Stadium in his “Detroit Journal.” As the last game in the old Michigan ballpark drew near, Tom Stanton wrote about growing up an intergenerational Tigers fan in […]
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From an e-mail via SABR: Sock It to ‘Em Tigers: The Incredible Story of the 1968 Detroit Tigers, a joint effort of SABR and the Mayo Smith Society, is now available from Maple Street Press. Edited/project-managed by David Raglin and myself In the best tradition of Rounder Books’ tomes on the 1975 and 1967 Boston […]
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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
