Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The Emerald Guide to Baseball, published by the Society for American Baseball Research, is now available. The new edition includes Opening Day rosters and a “notated Umpires Register,” among other items. You can read my original post about the Guide here.
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Congratulations to Larry Tye, whose biography Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend was named winner of Spitball Magazine‘s Casey Award and the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research. Read (most of) it on Googlebooks.
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Or Emerald, at any rate. Case in point: For the fourth year, the Society for American Baseball Research, of which I have been a proud member for more than 20 years, is offering at no charge, free, gratis, their very excellent Emerald Guide to Baseball. This 500-plus page volume features complete major and minor league […]
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Or Emerald, at any rate. Case in point: For the fourth year, the Society for American Baseball Research, of which I have been a proud member for more than 20 years, is offering at no charge, free, gratis, their very excellent Emerald Guide to Baseball. This 500-plus page volume features complete major and minor league […]
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Taking a few days off to head down to our nation’s capital where I’ll be conventioning at the annual Society for American Baseball Research get-together. Looking forward to finally meeting so many good people I’ve only known through the Internet and e-mail. Talk amongst yourselves ’til I get back next week.
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No, it’s not a history of the Irish and the national pastime (although we are getting close to St. Patrick’s Day…) One of the benefits of being a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) are the wonderful publications that arrive in the mail each year. Scholars, historians, math professors, and just plain […]
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The BJR is produced annually by the Society for American Baseball Research. Several back issues are available from a new Web site. While the stories are usually quite good (written by SABR members), the presentation is a bit clunky. In this era of digitization, one would imagine they could “shoot” the original pages (with illustrations). […]
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Bibliography Committee Newsletter, September 2008 Features Skip McAfee’s review of The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved Leverett T. Smith’s review of The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the Myth An interview with Sarah Freligh, author of Sort of Gone A profile of […]
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The Pastime.net reports the daily happenings at the 38th SABR convention, now wrapping up in Cleveland.
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Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best baseball history or biography of 2007. Also recognized as “finalists” were Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman Macht and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line by Adrian Burgos, Jr. Author Lee Lowenfish will receive […]
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The author and SABR member died Jan. 2 at age 52. According to an obituary in the Boston Globe: Mr. Thompson contributed nearly two dozen articles over the years to the organization’s research publications. In 2005, he published his first book, “The Ferrell Brothers of Baseball,” a biography of the Ferrell family of North Carolina, […]
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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
* SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter
May 6, 2009
The current edition includes reveiws of The Girl Who Thre Butterflies; Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty; Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality; and news about SABR book award winners Tom Swift (Chief Bender’s Burden) and Ronald M. Selter (Ballparks of the Deadball Era). SABR Bibliography Committee Newsletter, April […]
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