Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Submitted for your interest from another semi-regular scan of new titles. It may seem unfair, but I do tend to judge e-books by their cover, especially when they are offered only in that format. It’s an indication of the time and effort the author/publisher puts into the project. Similarly, I’m basing my opinions strictly on […]
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Happy New Year, everyone. Hope nothing but the best comes your way in 2015, including the best baseball books available. Almost done with the non-baseball book and greatly looking forward to catching up on my regular reading, writing, and wrangling authors, filmmakers, and artists into discussing their work on new podcast segments. In the meantime, […]
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Happy New Year, everyone. Hope nothing but the best comes your way in 2015, including the best baseball books available. Almost done with the non-baseball book and greatly looking forward to catching up on my regular reading, writing, and wrangling authors, filmmakers, and artists into discussing their work on new podcast segments. In the meantime, […]
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Note: Just like Chuck Lorre’s “vanity cards” at the end of The Big Bang Theory, you should read these list stories to their conclusion; the end is always changing, even though the theme is basically the same, finishing up with a self-promotional message. On with the show… As you may have notice in recent weeks, […]
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Over the years, I’ve expressed disappointment in the changing times, when magazines about the fantasy baseball outnumber those about the “regular” game. Fantasy Sports is a multi-billion dollar business. With so much at stake, there have to be rules and governing bodies, otherwise there’s chaos. From time to time, I try to get with the […]
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This it the time of year when the baseball media offer their considered opinions on their favorite prospects. Sometimes they’re spot on, other times, not so much. So I thought, why not apply this to the upcoming “rookie crop” of baseball books? That is, titles that are making their debuts in 2014 — no reprints/reissues […]
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Kids, ask your parents/grandparents.) Our good friend Howard Megdal posted these suggestions on”How to survive without baseball.” Among them: Simulated baseball games, such as Baseball Mogul, Diamond Mind Baseball, Out of the Park Baseball, and, of course, Strat-O-Matic. I would add What-If Sports to this list. They allow you to construct a roster of any […]
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I want one of these. On the other hand, not too sure about these. And speaking of the players suspended for the Biogenisis mess, I’m just curious, since I do not indulge: how does this affect “owners” who drafted these guys for their fantasy teams?
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A recent episode of Jeopardy featured these questions under the category “Presidential Fantasy Draft”: Like his dad, he made the Big Leagues and his 1749 appointment to the Netherlands pads his INTL stats. In saying there was no “right of secession” but not backing it up, his PTCWOL (Push the Civil War on Lincoln) is […]
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Baseball GB (“British perspectives on baseball”) published this review of the classic by Robert Coover. Upshot: If you love baseball and novels, a baseball novel should be the perfect way to combine the two passions; however, there’s always a fear with any sport-based work of fiction that the qualities that make up a great read […]
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All Things Considered often features stories about baseball. But they don’t podcast so it’s a rare treat to post one of their stories. In this case, it’s a pro-fantasy piece by Tony Horwitz which sings the praises of books on the topic. Sometimes a fantasy…is all you need.
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The Wall Street Journal published this item about the long-in-the-tooth pioneers of rotisserie/fantasy baseball, including Glen Waggoner, now the executive editor of ESPN books. There’s also a video clip of WSJ “fantasy sports expert” Nando DiFino on these fine fellows who revolutionized the way the game is enjoyed, for better or worse, by thousands of […]
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Hard to believe, but there are already sme fantasy baseball magazines on the magazine racks. Used to be Street and Smith’s was the only game in town; you knew the season was just a short time away when that became available. But time no longer matters when it comes to fantasy baseball. As soon as […]
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From sox1fan.com. The book’s official site.
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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
* The other side of sabremetrics
December 23, 2008
From MVN.com (Most Valuable Network), a social web site, this thoughtful argument about “The Problems of Sabremetrics,” with a reference to Sam walkers Fantasyland. Upshot: …the work of Bill James, Ron Shandler and their ilk has brought a new dynamic to our understanding of how baseball players succeed and fail on the diamond. Yet despite […]
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