Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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(with a side of shameless self-promotion. A “simcha” is a joyous occasion.) From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Duo celebrating bar mitzva of counting Jewish athletes Edmon J. Rodman OCT. 28 — Down in Texas, the Rangers have an All-Star second baseman who has added flavor and flair to the 2010 season, helping propel his team […]
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The poster-boy for Jewish sports of the boomer generation turns — wait for it — 74 today! Hard to believe he’s been away from the game for more than 40 years, but his legacy goes on. Even today, parents invoke the Hall of Fame pitcher: “If Sandy Koufax could miss the World Series for Yom […]
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I usually don’t include news about kids’ books, but for Sandy Koufax, I’ll make an exception. I did a piece on author Jonah Winter for the NJ Jewish News.
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At the risk of blowing my own horn, I wanted to say that my essays on Shawn Green, Hank Greenberg, and Sandy Koufax are included in the recently-released Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture, edited by Jack. R. Fischel with Susan M. Ortmann (Greenwood Press). I’m kvelling.
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“Dandy Sandy” made his big league debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on June 24, 1955 (so I’m early, so sue me). In his honor, I offer this video tribute featuring the dulcet tones of Jimmy Durante.
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The video version of an old joke. In this show, titled “Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed,” the horse, a staunch L.A. Dodger fan, spots a few batting weaknesses among the line-up while watching one of their televised games. The episode was aired as the opener for the fourth season (Sept. 29, 1963) and features — […]
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The actor, who died Monday at the age of 93, never appeared in any baseball films, but his daughter, Ann, was married to Sandy Koufax from 1969-92. So I guess that gives me a “degrees of separation” scenario with Widmark, since I met Koufax many years ago at a business function. You can tell by […]
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Every time the High Holidays come around, you can be sure you’ll be reading stories about Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, the two greatest Jewish baseball players of all time. Both refused to compromise their religious beliefs to play on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews — Edgar Guest even penned […]
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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
