Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Today’s Wall Street Journal ran this extensive article about the differences (and similarities) between Met and Yankee fans. I took a brief on-line interactive survey, which rendered me — incorrectly — a fan of the Bronx bombers. (Only 14 people took the poll, which indicates that WSJ readers have better things to do with their […]
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Great. Something else for Mets and Yankees fans to argue about. Now you can sing along. And I couldn’t help but add this one. A song about the Washington Nationals? How retro.
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And Other Tales from the Edge of Baseball Fandom, by Emma Span (Villard, 2010) As much as I love baseball, there are times when I take a step back and wonder, “What am I doing with this nonsense? Surely, there are better ways to spend my time and energies.” And at the risk of being […]
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Sorry, almost done with this catching up business, so bear with me. For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s my take on the November session of Yankees Fantasy Camp in the Dec, 17 issue of the New Jersey Jewish News. In addition, My teammate Ira Jaskoll wrote this piece for the Jewish Magazine […]
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Attila the Hun and Other Yankee Stories, by Ira Berkow (Triumph) Not that anyone needs an excuse, but the Yankees winning another world championship is fodder for the book mill. There are no less than five publications in the sports magazine section of my local Barnes and Noble hoping to capitalize on the afterglow. They’re […]
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Roy White was an all-star outfielder for the New York Yankees from 1965-79, finishing with 160 home runs, 758 RBI, and a .271 batting average and appeared in three ALCS and three World Series. White ranks among the top 10 Yankees in several offensive categories including, second in sacrifice flies, fifth in stolen bases, sixth […]
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Any of which you can put on or near a bookshelf. We came back after our first game to find a brand new of Nike shower shows (see Bull Durham). The administrators had spoken earlier that morning about wearing such items to prevent athlete’s foot, so I thought this was just an ounce of prevention. […]
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Spent the week of Nov. 16 at Yankee Fantasy Camp (much more on that later). Ran into Bryan Hoch, who covers the Yankees for MLB.com. I first met Hoch in the press box at Shea Stadium more than a decade ago when he was an enterprising 19-year-old and I was part-timing for STATS Inc. Hoch […]
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While many people look forward to the holiday catalogs that have already been stuffing mailboxes, or the seed catalogs that start arriving shortly after the new year, I look forward to the book catalogs that come every few months. The latest from the University of Nebraska Press contains the regular inclusion of baseball titles that […]
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My apologies to those who missed me. I was away, doing my best impersonation of George Plimpton, as an embed at Yankees Fantasy Camp, an experience I will be blogging about here in the near future. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Fantasy Camp offers regular Joes the opportunity to be little boys again — […]
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Just arrived at the Tampa Bay Sheraton Suites, where I will spend the next week as an embedded journalist at Yankee Fantasy Camp, specifically writing about the new Kosher component. Ran into an old “colleague,” Bryan Hoch, who covers the Yankees for MLB.com. I met Bryan years ago when he was a 19-year-old covering the […]
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Surprise, surprise: The Yankees. NOT. Although Tom Verducci did write the story about the Yankees’ latest championship, as well as this sidebar on the upcoming hot stove league. And in a case of raining on the Yankees’ parade, this week’s “Sign of the Apocalypse”: New York City office workers who ran out of confetti during […]
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Dropped by the local Barnes and Noble at lunch today. Almost shocked to see only one “quicky” publication about the Yankees’ latest championship. The New York Post published The Best, a paperback volume. I never liked this type of publication. It seems like a money grab since the stuff for the most part is just […]
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Sorry I’ve been away and neglectful. I’m a bit excited about going to Yankees Fantasy Camp in November. I’ll be writing about the experience for my other blog as well as the NJ Jewish News and a few other outlets because of the new kosher component, which offers kosher food and special programming for Jewish […]
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Basketball preview this week, so not much in the way of baseball. Basically it’s Joe Posnanski on the Yankees.
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Several new titles consider World Series past. Two — by Joe Posnanski and Mark Frost — deal with the 1975 Red Sox-Reds contest, which was highlighted by Carlton Fisk’s game-winner in the sixth game, the closest to that point Boston had come to winning a title since 1918. The next most recent is Perfect, by […]
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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
* As Steve Martin used to say…
November 5, 2009
“But the most amazing thing of all: I get paid for doing this” (the closing lines for one of the comedian’s songs during his heyday in the late 1970s). I bring it up because, once again, it goes to the folly of using sports pundits as a source of reliable information. At least when it […]
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