Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Because these could fit on a bookshelf if it was big enough. Reggie Jackson is auctioning off “the 10-foot-high letters that spelled “YANKEE STADIUM” near the edge of the roof for 32 years after the renovated stadium opened in 1976.” Jackson purchased the letters when the Stadium closed down after the 2008 season. Of course […]
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Not bloody likely if you’re talking about the (gold)keystone combination of Derek Jeter and Brandon Steiner. Last week I gave some heat to this memorabilia stupidity. I guess if Steiner can find some fans who don’t know what to do with their money and are willing to part with it for Jeter tchotchkes, more power […]
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Because you can put all this Derek Jeter memorabilia on your bookshelf… Yesterday I came across this piece on ESPN: “Yankees to wear Derek Jeter patch.” There was a lot of social media chatter about the appropriateness of this gesture. Sports fans debated whether an active player should be honored like this. Such tributes usually […]
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First of all, congratulations to Jim M. of Austin, Texas, winner of last week’s book, A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters & the Battle for the 1897 Pennant, by Bill Felber. Thank you all for your comments. In an attempt to encourage even more commenting, and brighten up your week when you need […]
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My apologies for falling way behind. Still basking in my post-Yankee fantasy camp experience, which you will be able to read about in the pages of the New Jersey Jewish News in the next week or so, as well as Broadside Bombers next year. So without further ado: Ron Shandler, who publishes the popular Baseball […]
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I was misled. I thought the Philadelphia Inquirer had run an item prematurely congratulating the Phillies for winning the World Series for the second consecutive year. Turns out they just accidentally ran an advertisement from Macy’s, apparently in a rush to sell merchandise. I can’t recall exactly where I saw it, but some news magazine […]
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by Brian Biegel. Crown, 2009. Miracle Ball is at once a sweet and haunting book. The premise has the author, whose day job is that of an independent filmmaker, on an obsessive quest to find the whereabouts of an/or ownership of the ball hit by Bobby Thomson in the 1951 playoff game against the Brooklyn […]
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How the mighty — and not so mighty — have fallen: According to this story on the Sports Collector’s Daily website Dykstra’s 1986 World Series Ring Brings $56,762 I wonder if Baseball Americana had time to include it.
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t […]
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My wife recently gave me a bottle of Driven the new fragrance inspired/created/whatever by Derek Jeter, My dilemma: what do I do with this? On the one hand, I know I should use it. On the other hand, would this have any value as a collector’s item? Either way, I can keep it on the […]
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The Mets are hosting an on-line auction. The cheapest item as of this writing is a $50 stadium brick; the most expensive, is the letter “S” off the Shea Stadium sign (the “Stadium” S, not the “Shea” S) for $2,500. The auction ends October 31.
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A couple of noteworthy pieces in the Sept. 22 issue: “Chicago Style,” a collaborative effort on the White Sox and Cubs, full of entertaining factoids (102 according to the cover). “The Authenticators,” by Colin Fleming, on how to spot the real deal in the memorabilia world. including a sidebar on the Honus Wagner card
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Tom Shroder of The Washington Post contributed this sweet, nostalgic piece about discoerving a long-forgotten piece of his childhood. As I lectured my mom on this subject recently, arguing for ruthlessness in the disposition of boxes filled with old stuff, I came across a little cardboard notebook. Labeled “Official Baseball Score Book,” it opened to […]
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This article from the Miami Herald heralds the Baseball Reliquary, a California-based organization “that trumpets itself as a ‘traveling museum of baseball curiosities and wonderments.”
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There’s a lot of material that’s fallen by the wayside as I try to keep this blog fresh with the latest in baseball book publishing information. But in the words of the revered philosopher, Regis Philbin, “I’m only one man!” So I’m using this space to try to catch up. Some of the items might […]
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According to an item in the Feb. 25 issue of Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, Hunt Auctions will include “more than 140 items” from the estate of the late Bowie Kuhn. The former commissioner’s collection includes several rings from baseball events, autographed balls, contracts, and various awards. The lot is expected to go for […]
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From Sportscollectorsdaily.com, a brief but fervent recommendation of photographer Terry Heffernan’s new project featuring items from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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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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The things we keep: The sad truth
March 9, 2015
Bob, a distant relative of my wife, passed away recently. He lived in Hoboken with his wife, who died several years ago. I didn’t know him well. He was a very quiet fellow who kept to himself during the biennial family reunions. I can’t even recall his last name on my own. It turns out […]
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