Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“). In addition, occasionally […]
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Congratulations to Sasha G. of Cooperstown, NY, winner of Claudia Williams’ Ted Williams, My Father: A Memoir. Just an an aside, Sasha runs Extra Innings, a baseball memorabilia shop across the street from the Hall of Fame. By the way, I picked up a copy of Frozen: A True Story — My Journey into the […]
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Apropos to what James Bailey and I were going back and forth about last week, this piece by Neil Genzlinger on the merits — or lack thereof — of memoirs in the Times’ Sunday Book Review caught my eye because one of the four authors included was Sean Manning, who had edited last year’s Top […]
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In a former life, I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted an award-winning bog about Jews and Sports.
I did a profile piece on the legendary cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was very generous in immortalizing me in this caricature.
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
Hot thoughts on a “Cold” topic
February 2, 2011
Since I don’t know if you folks get to the comments portion of the program, I thought I’d post these remarks about the issue of memoirs submitted by Bill Lewers — whose book I reviewed in December — as a stand alone entry.It seems Genzlinger’s comments in the Times‘ Sunday Book Review on the relative […]
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