Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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A lot of publications are call this woman — who died last December at the age of 83 — the “inspiration” for the novel The Natural. I think that’s wrong. To me it was Eddie Waitkus, whom Steinhagen shot in a hotel room in 1949, that served as the inspiration. After all, it was Roy […]
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The inspiration for Bernard Malamud’s epic baseball novel, The Natural, died this date in 1972. His name kept popping up whenever a star-struck fan stalked a celebrity, becoming part of pop culture, surfacing in some very strange places. Like on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, according to this episode synopsis from season 10: During […]
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in 1954, the Baltimore Orioles purchase the contract of first baseman Eddie Waitkus from the Philadelphia Phillies. Waitkus was the player shot by a stalker fan and the supposed inspiration for Bernard Malamud’s The Natural. The Amazon Report for Eddie Waitkus: Baseball’s Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus
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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 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
