Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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According to an item in Publishers Weekly daily email, there will be a new sports-heavy imprint launching this spring. MVP Books, an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, will specialize in “distinctive, high-quality books for the sports enthusiast,” with both illustrated coffeetable books and narrative nonfiction in a hardcover format. The MVP titles to hit the […]
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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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by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci Doubleday The former manager of the New York Yankees — and one of its most successful — teams up with Sports Illustrated’s senior baseball writer for this unique and somewhat baffling presentation. Although Joe Torre gets top billing as the nominative author, the reader will get the impression that […]
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In light of Joe Torre’s new book, the Yankees are considering a non-disparagement clause in their employee contracts. According to a Newsday article by Wallace Mathews, “The Yankees are said to feel betrayed by Torre’s book, which has been interpreted as critical of some players, most notably Alex Rodriguez, and inaccurate in its recounting of […]
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Well said, sir. In another piece about the Torre book, Jay Price of the Staten Island Advance notes what a long, slow off-season it’s been for the sports desks: Most of the revelations turned out to be as shocking as finding out Rush Limbaugh’s not planning any sleepovers at the Obama White House. What’s that […]
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A feeling of discomfort brought on by the use of the word “betrayal” by many sports pundits has Joe Torre on the defensive. In this piece from yesterday’s NYTimes.com, the former Yankee manager seeks to right the wrong impressions that the publisher’s marketing department probably looooves. You can practically see them rubbing their hands with […]
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And no, we’re not advocating burning them. This piece from the Pride of the Yankees blog on NJ.com features 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees, Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia, and Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The House That Ruth Built”
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Let’s get this straight: I can’t stand Howard Stern, I find him a vulgar person. It’s my wife who enjoys him and his minions. So for Hanukka, I gave her a copy of Artie Lange’s new book Too Fat To Fish. I mention this only because he has an extensive section about how he and […]
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On the heels of the Teixiera announcement, this one regarding 25-cent bleacher seats for Yankee Stadium openers How much do you want to bet that the seats will a) be sold out in 15 minutes (look at those folks who have been waiting since last Friday for the 1,000 or so available pairs of new […]
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The Yankees just signed Teixiera. Enough is enough. Getting on my soapbox again, I think that just as international teams are only allowed to have a certain amount of foreign-born players, so should the Majors only be allowed a certain amount of free agents; everyone else has to be “home grown.”
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From one of my “competitors,” the GreatBaseballBooks blog, this brief item on David Surdam’s The Postwar Yankees: Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited. Upshot: Surdam’s writing is straightford [sic] but not boring. If you need to read something by an economist, you could do much worse.
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From the blog: Wrigley Field And from the book by the same name: The Boston Red Sox Though many would argue that the Chicago Cubs are the top club for white people, the Boston Red Sox remain the undisputed white franchise. In fact, were it not for the players, there would be no recorded instances […]
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American Thinker ran this review of Harvey Frommer’s latest book. Upshot: If you love the Yankees or simply have an abiding interest in baseball, this book will provide you with many pleasurable hours of recalling memories through its many pictures and loads of interesting tidbits and anecdotes about our most storied baseball team and its […]
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Tresh was one of the last players to bridge the good Yankees to the bad Yankees in the 1960s.
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The book I wish I had written, reviewed on NewBaseballApparrel.com. You can read some samples of the book here.
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Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats, And toss my coffin in Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall Will bid the bleacher bums adieu And I will […]
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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
* The Yankees and the future of the 1st Amendment
February 2, 2009
In trying to protect themselves against future “attacks” with their ” non-disparagement clause,” the Yankees have instead made themselves a laughing stock at best and a source of outrage at worst. Look for the ACLU to get involved at any moment. And PETA; they’re always looking for some publicity. Among the numerous commentaries on the […]
Tagged as: first amendment rights, Joe Torre, New York Yankees, The Yankee Years
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