Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Tiger’s on the cover, but there are several baseball items, including: The SI “Most Overrated Player” Poll “Shake Me Down at the Ball Game“, by Josh Levin A mini-profile on A’s closer Huston Street How the Red Sox are faring with key players injured
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The Inside Baseball story profiles Chipper Jones, who’s making a bid to be the first .400 hitter since George Brett.
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The cover story (by Albert Chen) is the improbable tale of Josh Hamilton, now with the Texas Rangers. It wasn’t enough that he came back from the brink of oblivion; now he’s excelling in a way that wasn’t even predicted when he was originally drafted. So many low points to choose from. No, it wasn’t […]
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(May 19): Feature story on Elijah Dukes, the Washington Nationals’ “troubled” star Column by Tim Keown on the latest in the continuing soap opera that is Roger Clemens 8 Things to Know About Groundskeepers And the usual from MLB Insider (May 12): Ben Reiter profile of Max Scherzer, rookie pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks (May […]
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According to Jon Friedman on MarketWatch.com, it’s Sports Illustrated‘s Gary Smith. Perhaps a secret to his success is that he maintains a distance from his peers. “I don’t read that much sports journalism,” he said. He prefers fiction and philosophy, which shouldn’t surprise his fans because he’s a master storyteller and amateur philosopher.
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With apologies to Journey. Other publications have made their full runs available as either CD (New Yorker, Rolling Stone) or on-line, but this, this is an important resource. Coming Thursday to a computer near you.
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The New York Times recently ran this article about sportswriters as the new breed of free agent, moving from publication to publication for higher and higher salaries. Rick Reilly recently left Sports Illustrated for ESPN The Magazine, while Dan Patrick did the reverse (think of it as a trade of two superstars). These are just […]
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If you’re going to give a book, give big, I always say. Coffee table editions are especially welcome and if the topic happens to be baseball, so much the better. It sometimes seems unfair that publications like Sports Illustrated can simply reach into 50 years-worth of archives at any time and pull a gem out […]
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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
* ESPN and SI baseball previews: A head-to-head comparison
April 3, 2008
Bearing in mind that SI is a weekly, and ESPN a bi-weekly… Sports Illustrated ESPN The Magazine Cover boy(s) “New generation of Stars,” featuring Ryan Braun, Justin Upton, Troy Tulowitzki, Jacob Ellsbury, Clay Buchholz, and Ryan Zimmerman C.C. Sabathia Lead Story Tulowitzki profile Sabathia profile Sidebars(s) Five future stars (Cameron Maybin, Ryan Braun, Jay Bruce, […]
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