Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Actually, most are not exactly new, but re-released in paper back editions. But I guess they’re all new if you haven’t read them yet (this sounds like one of those “if a tree falls in the woods…” bits). The only one that might qualify is A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That […]
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This is the time of year when home gardeners (of which I am one) look forward to receiving their seed catalogs. I also enjoy getting the latest from the publishing world. Today I received the Ivan R. Dee catalog, which includes the following baseball titles: Catcher, by Peter Morris — The author of such neo-classics […]
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A lengthy treatise of the Peter Morris book via Popmatters.com.
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Peter Morris, author of the two-volume Game of Inches, has a new title coming out next March. But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1870, published by Ivan R. Dee, looks back at an innocent time before the game turned pro. From Publisher’s Weekly: Morris … explores the earliest days […]
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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
