Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The Newark Star-Ledger published a small supplement in preview of the Yankees-Angels ALCS which may or may not begin tonight. Headline: “Angels and Demons.” Ha ha. Don’t you just know that if a erayin Yankees’ outfielder does anything heroic, this will change to “Angels and Damon”? Can’t wait to see how the folks at Fox […]
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So the playoffs are set: Yankees vs. Angeles, Dodgers vs. Phillies. The Yankees will try for their 27th pennant. That would pretty much qualify them for a dynasty, wouldn’t it? So in that spirit, I dug up this old iece, taken from a larger review for BookPage in April, 2000. As the new millennium approached, […]
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From Newsday, this review of Lew Paper’s book on Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game. Jimmy Scott, of Jimmy Scott’s High and Tight, wrote this review on Satchel, by Larry Tye. Two more sites on baseball cards: The Topps Archives (non-baseball material as well), and another devoted specifically to the 1980 Topps set. The event […]
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The weekly pub previews why the Bombers should succeed in the post-season in its Aug. 31 issue.
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Wife and daughter are at the Sawx-Tigers game at the moment, so I thought it appropriate to haul these three reviews out of mothballs. All appeared in A Red Sox Journal, published by The Buffalo Head Society in the late 1990s. * * * Murder at Fenway Park, by Troy Soos. Kensington Publishing: NY. 1994 […]
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This two-page overview of three Yankees titles — The Yankees Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci; A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, by Selena Roberts; and American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime, by Thompson, Vinton, O’Keeffe and Red — appears in this weeks New […]
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Passing along this interesting email I received today. In light of recent developments, it’s especially timely. Greetings. I am a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, currently working on a dissertation on the history of the song “God Bless America” and its uses after the September 11th attacks. I have developed an online survey on current […]
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Book Club Classics includes The Yankee Years among its suggestions for top men’s reads for the summer. The Yankee Years By Joe Torre What it is: Joe Torre’s tale of his years as manager of the Yankees. Why you should read it: Sure, Torre already wrote an autobiography and a self-help book, but this is […]
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The writer of this interesting piece by Clark Booth in the Dorchester Reporter brings up a good point: Why do we need so many books on the same subjects, such as the Boston Red Sox in 1978? It’s been said lately that the strings are being pulled tightly in the publishing industry. Several factors are […]
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I don’t usually buy the New York Daily News, so maybe I missed it. If not, will someone please reind the sports editors that there are two NY teams, each with a new ball park this year? The Sunday, March 29, issue included “Welcome Home,” a 48-page supplement all about the new Yankee Stadium. Very […]
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by Derek Gentile. MVP Books, 2009. This was one of these titles that, too me and like many movie trailers, was more exciting than the actual product. I was actually expetcing a philosophical (or at least mock) treatise about how the Bronx Bombers reflected many issues of life, the ups and downs, the victories and […]
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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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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
* Gut yom tov
September 27, 2009
Jewish for “Happy Holiday,” As Jews around the world gather tonight to mark the holiest day on the calendar, George Vecsey offered this column in today’s Sunday Times. Instead of putting the game at 8 p.m. — prime time, as the networks call it — ESPN and Major League Baseball are accommodating thousands of fans […]
Tagged as: Boston Red Sox, George Vecsey, New York Times, New York Yankees, Newspapers
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