Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Ron Darling, former Mets star and author of The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, was on The Daily Show last night. The more I watch the interview segments of the program, the less I like the job Jon Stewart does as host. he’s fine for the “news” items, but […]
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In today’s NY Times, Joshua Robinson has a little piece, “Piazza Leaves Quickly, and Quietly, After Ceremony.” He writes about the ceremonial first pitch battery of Tom Seaver and the former Mets catcher. While Tom Terrific hung out afterwards to shmooze, Piazza, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen. Escorted by security, he went from the […]
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Because I keep cookbooks on the shelf, and that’s close enough for jazz… The New York Times ran two pieces today on the food fans can expect at the new area ballparks, one for the Yankees, and one for the Mets.
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the New York Mets’ first World Championship and since everyone loves a celebration, there are several new books marking that occasion in particular and the team in general, including: Shea Good Bye: The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season, by Keith Hernandez and Matthew Silverman A […]
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Because you can put the smaller pieces of debris on a bookshelf: There have been a lot of derogatory remarks about Shea Stadium over the years — too old, too boring, too much walking, too few concessionaires, too smelly rest rooms, etc. But it was the ballpark of my youth, and as with any family, […]
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I noted with some amusement a piece by Dan Graziano, the baseball writer for The Star-Ledger, in which he finds it necessary to spell out the phonetic pronunciation of the newly-acquired relief pitcher J.J. Putz (sounds like “pootz”). Putz, who had spent his entire six-year career with the Seattle Mariners, is used to being his […]
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Rather than giving Jerry Manuel another shot at the helm of the disappointing Mets, whose collapse over the last two season borders on the epic, the front office announced there will be a new sheriff in town as the Mets move into their new home. The new manager, identified only as “Wally,” appears with new […]
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Five Decades of Stadium Memories (Triumph Books, 2008) Compared with some of the wonderful books that have been published about Yankee Stadium’s last season, this slim paperback comes across like a poor stepchild, an afterthought in the world of recorded memory. I know the Mets’ home since 1964 doesn’t have the same cachet of the […]
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From Triumph books, again: The New York Mets may have lost out on reaching the playoffs for the second time in as many seasons, but the team is still important enough to have two upcoming books published revolving around the 2008 historic season: and So Long, Shea and Shea Good-Bye. So Long, Shea: Five Decades […]
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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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Every year, the All Night Soul jazz festival at St. Peter’s Church in New York City honors different jazz legends. This year the concert, to be held Sunday, October 12, pays tribute to Benny Powell and Jane Jarvis, the former organist for the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. Jarvis, a renowned jazz pianist and […]
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Keep your sunny side up, up! Hide the side that gets blue. If you have nine sons in a row, Baseball teams make money, you know! Keep You’re Sunny Side Up With your kind indulgence. Ahem…: The deed is done, the Marlins won. The Mets again have lost. Their fans are sad, feel they’ve been […]
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To commemorate the final game at Yankee and Shea Stadiums, some of the NY papers put out supplements with their editions. Newsday ran a 20-page insert, “Thanks for the Memories,” which included: “One final night to look,” by Mark Herrmann 21 events in Herrman’s “Catching up on history” (21. because the last game was played […]
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It may not have the same resonance as Yankee Stadium. It may even be a pit. But people seem to forget that Shea Stadium is closing, too. And the Yankees would do well to remember that they were guests there while their own “House” was being put back in order. Shea Stadium (NY) (Images of […]
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(Because sometimes my cats snoozs on my bookshelf.) Saw this headline on the sports component of Comcast.net: Ex-Met Kills Cat in Rage? Which leads to a story about Former New York Mets minor leaguer Joseph Petcka, 37, [who] is on trial on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals for killing Norman [a cat] on March […]
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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
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January 15, 2009
A story in today’s New York Times reveals the uniform patches that the Mets and Yankees will wear for the inaugural season at their new stadiums. Regardless of your feelings about the teams themselves, the Yankees patch is quite classy, a mix of old and new as one would expect from an organization that prides […]
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