Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Will this year ever end? We lost yet another baseball great: Phil Niekro, the ageless knuckleballer, died December 26 at the age of 81. Here’s the obituary from The New York Times by Richard Goldstein, as well as an appreciation by Tyler Kepner. And here’s one from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Niekro had a record […]
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Daniel “Rusty” Staub turns 67 today. Rusty Staub of the Expos, by Robertson, 1971. Hello, Mr. Met!, by Staub, 2006 (juvenile). Few and Chosen: Defining Mets Greatness Across the Eras, by Staub with Pepe, 2009. Also born this date, Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who turns 72. Knuckle Balls, by Niekro with Bird, 1986. The […]
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Intro: As previously stated, the recent election of Robert Alomar and Bert Blyleven got me to thinking: how many Hall of Famers have had books written about them or penned their own stories. Here are the results. Again, this is not an all-inclusive list; almost all juvenile titles have been omitted. * * * Hal […]
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“Knucksie” turns 69 today. The Hall of Famer defied time by pitching until he was 48, amassing a record of 311-274 while playing for some pretty bad teams. One stat I found particularly “enjoyable”: In 1979 Niekro won 21, lost 21, started 44 games, completed 23 (more than entire leagues these days), threw 311 innings, […]
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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
