Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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According to this AP story, “Taxpayers and ticket buyers are the losers in plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies to build the new Yankee Stadium….” And Mets fans shouldn’t be smug about it: “[Assemblyman Richard Brodsky] said the concerns about subsidies for private businesses without direct benefit to the public […]
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but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
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A comparison between the 1969 New York Mets and the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, by Lee Jenkins.
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Yeah, I know, it’s also Roger Clemens’ birthday, but haven’t you heard enough about him for awhile? Jones, who with teammate Tommie Agee, helped lead the Mets to their Amazin’ world championship in 1969, turns 66 today. The Amazon Report on Cleon Jones: The Life Story of the One and Only Cleon The Life Story […]
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This piece from Bloomberg.com suggests that Willie Randolph follow the example of Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson and give some of his players reading assignments in the hopes that it might open their minds to philosophies that will help the team win. As for the connection to athletes and reading, I recall an anecdote about Yogi […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
