Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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My wife recently bought The Complete Rinner’s Day-By-Day 2010 Calendar which included this philosophical tidbit:
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Tis the season. As the summer game segues into fall’s finales, no less than five titles deal with the World Series, including two about the 1975 games between the Red Sox and Reds, one about Don Larsen’s 1956 perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, and But the one that goes back the furthest is The […]
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From David Vincent: Bill Nowlin and David Vincent announce the publication of their new book titled “The Ultimate Red Sox Home Run Guide.” The volume is published by Rounder Books and is available through many fine retailers. The guide takes a look at Red Sox homers from the regular season to the postseason, with nearly […]
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Or “This is why we’re falling behind the other industrialized nations.” Bates College offers a course about “Red Sox Nation”
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Seems the Yankees and their fans are somewhat upset about MLB’s “Call Your Shot” promotion, in which a fan winning an online contest will choose a spot here he believes Red Sox slugger David Ortiz can park one. “Sacrilege,” they cry, to befoul the final season at the hallowed Yankee Stadium with such heresy. The […]
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From Fredericksburg.com/The Free Lance-Star, this piece opines that the recent success of the Red Sox has meant the death of those books that complain (whine?) about the decades of disappointment suffered by the franchise’s fans.Upshot: The book is composed of numerous interviews by columnist David Laurila with assorted players, former players, coaches and personalities associated […]
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From the Lost and Gone Forever blog: (Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the episode in question “Something Nice Back Home”, avert thine eyes). By virtue of the Yankees/Red Sox and Indians/Mariners scores in the newspaper article, only one date is viable for the publication of the paper: August 31, 2007. Article states Yankees finish […]
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From the Associated Press: Red Sox outfielder Brandon Moss was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket after Boston’s 5-1 loss to Oakland on Wednesday. Moss played right field in Boston’s first two regular season games in Japan in place of the injured J.D. Drew. Moss’ ninth-inning home run tied Wednesday’s opener, which the Red Sox went on […]
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The current issue of Men’s Fitness features a cover story on Red Sox’ pitcher Josh Beckett. Meanwhile the current issue of Men’s Health features Derek Jeter as it’s cover boy. (They also have a brief piece featuring Jacob Ellerbsy of the Sox). I’m not just saying this because I’m from the NY area, but Jeter […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
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
* Curse you, curse
May 3, 2009
Charles McGrath penned this interesting comparison of good v. evil, aka Yankees v. Red Sox in today’s Week in Review section in the Sunday Times. Specifically, he talks about the differences in the ballparks. The New Yankees home, “with its vast, mall-like spaces, its temples of conspicuous consumption, feels like something the ancient Romans might […]
Tagged as: Red Sox, Yankees
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