Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Ossie Davis narrated Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, which was released as an audiobook earlier this year. Davis, who died in 2005, was born in 1917, two years before Robinson, so it seems quite appropriate that he would lend his “old man’s voice” to the project, making it seem like the great player himself was doing the […]
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It might be a bit later, but Negron, a special advisor to the Yankees, will read from and sign his new book, The Greatest Story Never Told: The Babe and Jackie, tonight (July 25) at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant at 42 Central Park South in Manhattan New York, from 6pm-8pm. From the Gotham baseball blog: “The […]
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Sherman “Jocko” Maxwell, a pioneering African-American broadcaster died recently at the age of 100. Maxwell, who was believed to have been the first black sportscaster, contributed to magazines such as Baseball Digest, for which he wrote about Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball. He also wrote Thrills and Spills in Sports, a 1940 book […]
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According to this story in the Los Angeles Daily News, the court martial papers for Jackie Robinson are being auctioned by Memory Lane, a sports memorabilia dealer in Tustin, in public event that ends at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 24. So there’s still time.
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I always get a kick out of seeing an old book “discovered” by a new generation of fans/readers. Case in point, Jules Tygiel’s examination of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. His remains one of the best on the subject, a notion with which Blackathlete.net seems to agree.
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(Because you can put the souvenir postcards of the plaques on a bookshelf.) For the first time ever, the Hall of Fame plaques of Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson will leave their home in Cooperstown, as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will travel the plaques to Memphis, Tenn., this weekend for a […]
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January 31 marks the birthdays of no less than three Hall of Famers: Jackie Robinson, Ernie Banks, and Nolan Ryan. There are enough books on and by Robinson to fill several shelves, including adult and, in particular, juvenile titles. Robinson’s story of courage and leadership transcended sports and stretched into the areas or sociology, race […]
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Edited by Michael G. Long. Times Books, 2007. By now, everyone — baseball fan or not — knows what a remarkable man Jackie Robinson was. In addition to his superior ability on the diamond and the responsibilities inherent in being the first African-American to break baseball’s notorious color line, he continued his work for civil […]
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Another team-devoted Web site, BleedingCubbieBlue.com, offers these reviews of The Cubs, by Glenn Stout, and First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, edited by Michael B. Long. Stout’s latest is much more entertaining, a coffee table book just meant for holiday giving. First Classis more scholarly. I’m reading that one now (or […]
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The following Q&A session with Cal Fussman, author of After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes — An Oral History, appeared on ESPN.com. Fussman, a contributing editor for ESPN The Magazine and Esquire magazine, compiled interviews with over 100 former major leaguers and other prominent members of society. The dialogue below is reproduced in […]
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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
* Recalling a Nightline nightmare
July 29, 2008
The LA Times’ columnist Bill Dwyre dredges up a waterhsed moment in baseball: the undoing of Al Campanis before a national audience. Campanis, Dodgers’ vice president and director of player personnel at the time, was a guest on the program along with Roger Kahn, author of the Classic The Boys of Summer. to mark the […]
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