Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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NPR’s The Leonard Lopate Show replayed a 2008 interview with the late Hall of Famer, following the release of his book, Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond. Jonah Keri, author of The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First and currently […]
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Carter lost his battle to cancer today at the age of 57. Here’s the NY Times obituary, by Richard Goldstein. Carter may have meant more to the fans of the Montreal Expos — where he played for 10 years — than the New York Mets. Here’s the Gazette‘s story, by Ian MacDonald. More on Carter: […]
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“The Kid” is not doing so well these days. The NY Times‘ Richard Sandomir wrote about Carter’s condition a couple of days ago, focusing on Carter’s daughter, Kimmy Bloemers, and her efforts to keep fans up-to-date through a blog, which appears to be invitation only to view. The article refers to this 7-Up commercial, which […]
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Gary Carter turns 57 today. Among the books written by or about The Kid: Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond, by Carter A Dream Season, by Carter Gary Carter, le “Kid” (French Edition) Catfish Hunter was born in 1946. Catfish, by Hunter Cooking with “Catfish” Hunter: Tasty recipes for people […]
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The Hall of Fame catcher turns 54 today. Carter was a “like him, hate him” kind of guy. There are those who said he was too eager to smile for the camera. For me, as a fan of the Mets, he was a savior, one of the tools helping propel them to some quality years […]
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As Opening Day approaches, the warm thoughts of afternoons in the sun will be obliterated by the cloud that is the steroids scandal. Jose Canseco, our guest “meteorologist,” is back with his sequel. The March 17 Publisher’s Weekly offers this feature on how the buzz about Canesco’s latest literary contribution is is stealing the thunder […]
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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
