Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The former general manager for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers passed away May 1 at the age of 93. According to Richard Goldstein’s obituary in The New York Times: In his 18 years with the Dodgers, from 1951 to 1968, Bavasi’s clubs won eight National League pennants and four World Series championships, including the […]
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One of the great sportswriters passed away Feb. 27 at the age of 93. Among his other works was a little book, written under the pseudonym of “Richard Hooker” (and with a collaborator), that would later become a wildly popular TV show about the Korean War. You might remember it as M*A*S*H. From his obituary […]
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The former general manager of the Cincinnati Reds of the Big Red Machine era, died at the age of 89. Howsam was also GM for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1964-66, right before the team won back-to-back pennants.
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Long-time baseball executive John McHale passed away recently. Furman Bishop recalled his old friend in this column from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. McHale, who played a few seasons for the Detroit Tigers in the 1940s, was also a driving force for the Montreal Expos, and is remembered in this piece by that city’s Gazette.
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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
