Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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There are very few who love the Mets more than I do, but even I found the hyperbole about the upcoming documentary this a bit much: In an unprecedented move that is sure to captivate baseball fans worldwide, Netflix has announced the release of a groundbreaking documentary series centered around two of the most beloved […]
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Lost in the tributes to baseball “legend” James Earl Jones was the passing of Ed Kranepool, one of the original New York Mets, who died Sunday at the age of 79 after struggling with heath issues for many years. Here’s his obituary by Richard Sandomir from The New York Times, which noted that “[Kranepool] is […]
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I look at the ages of these guys on Baseball-Reference and they’re all well into their 70s and 80s now. Where has the time gone? Jerry Grote, the backbone behind the plate for the Miracle Mets, passed away Sunday at the age of 81. Here’s his obituary by Richard Goldstein in The New York Times. […]
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Happy Opening Day (Week), everybody! 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 […]
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The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin’ New York Mets, by Ed Kranepool with Gary Kaschak (Triumph, 2023) I have been a fan of Ed Kranepool since I first became interested in baseball and the Mets. Can’t explain it. Maybe it was because he made his debut at the tender age of 17. […]
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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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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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The first thing you have to have is a catcher. Because if you don’t have a catcher, you’re going to have a lot of passed balls and you’re going to be chasing the ball back to the screen all day. Casey Stengel on the decision to make Hobie Landrith the expansion New York Mets first […]
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Does anyone else have these? I have a number of posters that I’ve been hanging in the stairwell to my basement office and came across these 2′ x 3′ jobs that I can only imagine acquiring via sending in box tops from Kelloggs cereals. They’re kind of cool but as the last images are from […]
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The latest disappointment of the Mets losing in the Wild Card round after finishing with 101 wins during the regular season brought to mind Devin Gordon’s 2021 book So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets―the Best Worst Team in Sports. I was in touch with Gordon and he […]
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I’ve done a series of entries on the things I keep: unusual books, cards, or other items that I’ve collected over the years. One of my “collectibles,” in addition to books, is baseball caps. I’ve got about 30 of them lining the wall of my office. I have this rule that I can’t just buy […]
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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. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast […]
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This four-hour love-fest is a bittersweet reminder of what was but also what could have been. As a life-long Mets fan, I joined millions in suffering through the decade-long, post-Miracle Mets and celebrating when they won their second “Amazin’” championship. As the 1970s turned into the 1980s, the vibe changed from more mellow to more […]
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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
This is progress?
February 8, 2022
Apropos of my recent post about the things we keep, don’t keep, or don’t get in the first place, I went ahead and purchased a copy of the 2021 Mets yearbook. I was especially curious because of the whole 2020 season having been played under a Covid cloud. Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, it was […]
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