Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Intro: As previously stated, the recent election of Robert Alomar and Bert Blyleven got me to thinking: how many Hall of Famers have had books written about them or penned their own stories. Here are the results. Again, this is not an all-inclusive list; almost all juvenile titles have been omitted. Pud Galvin (Inducted 1965) […]
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The publishers of American History magazine just came out with 100 Greatest Sports Movies (and you know how I feel about the use of “Greatest” and “Best” in the title). Extracting just the baseball films, we have, in order: The Pride of the Yankees (#4 overall) Bull Durham (#6) Major League (#12) A League of […]
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A few germane baseball items over the week that I overlooked: In today’s edition, John Klima, author of the recently relased Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend (Wiley), published this item on how the Yankees blew their chance to sign Willie […]
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We might hate the man, for what he did to himself and what he did to besmirch the (relative) cleanliness of the game, but give Jose Canseco his due. He was right about about a lot of things, including players who used. Jonathan Eig, author of a biography of Lou Gehrig — the anti-Canseco — […]
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ESPN’s Outside the Lines provided this touching look at the correspondence of the Iron Horse after his diagnosis with ALS and his retirement from baseball. You can read copies of the letters as well as view video of his famous farewell speech, delivered on 70 years ago today. Kirk Minihane from sports radoio station WEEI […]
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It appears on a hit TV show like CSI. I don’t normally watch the show, but I caught a recent episode “on demand” and noticed this from a scene in a prison library. It comes about 20 seconds in and you have to be alert: as Gil Grissom is looking for a book an inmate […]
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With the days dwindling down to a precious few for Yankee Stadium, the author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig contributed this touching tribute to the Iron Horse to the Fox Sports Web site. Eig writes: At the end of this baseball season, we will say goodbye to Yankee Stadium. My […]
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As much as we think we’re collectors, we’re just fooling ourselves. There’s (practically) no way to get everything of an item or theme that’s worth collecting. As that great philosopher, George Carlin, once said: “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” That being said, I have a dark spot for the entertainment industry […]
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Actor Edward Herrmann made almost as unlikely a baseball player in A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, a 1978 made-for-TV movie as Tony Perkins did in Fear Strikes Out, but he makes an excellent narrator on Jonathan Eig’s 2005 biography of the Iron Horse. Here’s a slide show/audio excerpt from the book: […]
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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.
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November 29, 2010 · 2 comments
As it pertains to J-E-T-E-R. I really hate this kind of stuff. Both the Yankees Derek Jeter seem to be bordering on the unreasonable as they dicker over a new contract. The Yankees’ corner claim that it’s all business, that Jeter isn’t getting any younger, that he shouldn’t be unduly rewarded for past performance, and […]
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