Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Since you can out baseball cards on your bookshelf… SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee has bestowed its highest honor — the Jefferson Burdick Award — to legendary artist Dick Perez. From the Committee’s announcement: While Dick is best known to many collectors for his fifteen-year run (1982-96) creating Donruss Diamond Kings, these cards only scratch […]
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The iconic illustrator will show pieces of his baseball collection at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street in Manhattan from March 26 to April 16. An Opening Night event will be held on Wednesday, March 27. Admission is free, but you have to register.
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I first “discovered” Dick Perez many years ago via his “Diamond King” baseball cards inserted into the Donruss sets. Little did I realize that that was just the tip of the iceberg. Perez, a former “official artist” for the Baseball Hall of Fame, has just released The Immortals, a massive, gorgeous collection of his work […]
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The Sport Artwork Forum ran this interview with baseball artist Dick Perez, whose style would be instantly recognizable to a certain segment of baseball card (“art to go”?) collectors. The forum ran a similar Q&A with John Hanley. Several years ago, when I was researching the Montreal Expos, I spoke with Andres Gallaraga. It was […]
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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 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
