Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Uh-oh, Joe. Minnesota catcher Mauer is the cover story. You know what that means. Just ask Zack Gerinke, who appeared on the May 5 issue. Prior to the stiry, he was 6-0 with a 0.40 ERA. For four games, beginning with his May 31 start, he gave up 15 earned runs in 26 innings and […]
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The NBA finals get the cover story, deservedly so. Baseball items this week include Jon Heyman on the mid-season trade market and Mark Bechtel’s profile on Phillies’ skipper Charlie Manuel.
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Baseball items include: Lee Jenkin’s roundtable interview with several pitchers who were selected as the No. 1 pick in previous baseball drafts, including Tim Belcher, Andy Benes, Floyd Bannister, and Bobby Witt, as well as Lew Krausse and Paul Pettit, from the pre-draft days. Haven’t read it myself yet, but it would be interesting to […]
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Didn’t anyone tell Bryce Harper about the SI Cover Curse? I mean, I know he’s only 16, but even so… Shame on Tom Verducci and the editors for perpetrating this instance of child abuse as they highlight “Baseball’s LeBron.” Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discussed the situation on yesterday’s Pardon the Interruption, warning the young […]
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The main baseball article is John Heyman’s look at the recent late-inning heroics by the Yankees. Other items include a sidebar on the Tigers’ resurgence and Albert Chen’s recounting of Harvey Haddix’s non-perfect game just 50 years ago.
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From the June 1 issue of Sports Illustrated, this quote by Scott Hatteberg, who was featured in Micheal Lewis’ book Moneyball, soon to be a major (?) motion picture: Former A’s first baseman, on being cast as himself in the film Moneyball: “I don’t know how you can screw up playing yourself, but I’m afraid […]
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The main baseball story is a feature by Tom Verducci on Randy Johnson. Wish they’d post the pictures with the articles.
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Take a guess at the cover story. If you picked anything other than Manny Ramirez — such as the exciting marquee matchup between the Capitals and Penguins, or Cleveland flying through the NBA playoffs — you’d be WRONG. (Please God, don’t let Selena Roberts get ahold of this one.) Tom Verducci gets cover-story honors with […]
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The main baseball pieces considered the 2005 draft, and, of course, A-Rod. But this item on Jack (Lucky) Lohrke was particularly interesting in a macabre sort of way. SI also did a piece on him 15 years ago. Lohrke died last week at age 85. I guess his luck finally ran out.
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The cover story of the May 4 issue features Joe Posnanski’s profile of Royals’ ace Zack Greinke. Other baseball items include a look at the Dodgers; high school no-hitters and how they do (or don’t) predict pro success; a little girl who was perfect against the boys; and an essay wondering if baseball fans shouldn’t […]
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Baseball items include: The evolution of MLB salaries: “Opening Day payroll this year—$2,655,395,194 total for the 30 clubs—was $31 million less than in 2008, a 1.2% drop and only the third year-to-year decline since the 1994 strike.” Bill Jenkins’ profile of Nick Adenhart What’s up with Cliff Lee, last year’s AL Cy Young winner? “Hit […]
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The cover story features the NCAA hoops tourney, as could be expected, but from kids at what might be the start of a pro career, the only baseball story in the April 13 issue looks at Jamie Moyer, at the other end of the spectrum.
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The cover of SI shows Albert Pujols flexing his muscles and asking baseball fans to believe in him. Sports pundits on shows such as Pardon the Interruption make no bones about saying they;re having a difficult time believing anyone these days, that it’s become a matter of guilty until proven innocent. But with drugs evoling […]
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Okay, the Super Bowl is over and the swimsuit issue is out of the way with. Time to get serious. Spring has sprung, the grass has riz I wonder where the ball club is? SI marks the return of Spring Training with a profile of Phillies ace Cole Hamels. SI.com offers this spring training preview, […]
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In a time when the print industry is succumbing to economic turmoils, you wonder if, in lieu of raises, Sports Illustrated isn’t offering to promote its writers’ books as a form of compensation. First it was Tom Verducci with The Yankee Years, excerpted on SI.com. He also used his on-line column to discuss the project. […]
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How many of us were aware that Selena Roberts of Sports Illustrated has a book on A-Rod published by Harper Collins due to be released in May? Here’s my cynicism coming through again: All the to-do about Torre’s book, written with Tom Verducci, another well-respected SI writer, comes out when there’s a lull in the […]
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Or, “here’s another fine mess.” On a recent episode of PTI, Kornheiser and Wilbon were talking about the latest Barry Bonds situation (i.e., a judge saying evidence against him might be disallowed because of improper procedure) and wondering what that might mean for the slugger’s Hall of Fame chances. Of all of his contemporaries — […]
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Tom Verducci’s article on Mike Mussina, future possible, maybe, who knows Hall-of-Famer. Ben Reiter’s piece on heavy hurlers
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Ha, made you look.
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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
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January 26, 2009
(Man, I wish I had a named that rhymed cooly with something.) Can’t believe WINS radio led off some of its segments with the “controversy” of the new book. One person interviewed sagely opined that the whole media blitz was just a way to sell more copies, to which the reporter added something along the […]
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