Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The Seattle Mariners pulled off a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Starting pitcher Kevin Millwood came out with an injury after six innings of not allowing a safety; a parade of five relievers finished the job and the mariners came away with a 1-0 win. This comes a week after Johan […]
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I was watching Johan Santana’s no-hitter on Friday and rejoiced as the Mets stormed onto the field to celebrate after the final out was recorded. I saw one fellow, in a Mets jersey and shorts, in the scrum and assumed he was a trainer; the players didn’t seem to think anything was amiss either. How […]
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Because my TV is on my bookshelf… I’m not one of those fans who believes his team can do not wrong, that they should win every game (especially tough when you’re talking about baseball), crushing the opposition under their heel. My sanity does not hinge on how the Mets do. They were not expected to […]
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Get me re-write. This story, dated April 7, is already obsolete since Pedro –called “the Mets’ clown prince and evil genius” — has been put on the disabled list following his first appearance. The onus now falls squarely on the shoulders of Johan Santana. The crew on Pardon the Interruption noted that all he has […]
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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
