Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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The iconic publication released The World Series: A History of the Fall Classic from the Pages of Sports Illustrated on October 17, right in the middle of the playoffs. If they had just waited a couple of weeks, they could have included the Texas Rangers’ first world championship. (Actually, they could have included any of […]
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Well, that was relatively easy. The Boston Red Sox are your new World Series Champions! As a newspaper buff, I always like to see how the local press covers such high-profile sports events. Frequently, tabloid publications employ “wraps,” using the entire front and back page for one large photo, like these from the Boston Herald. […]
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This card from the 1984 Fleer set shows the Blue Jays pitcher singing the Canadian National Anthem prior to a game against the Texas Rangers. The questions include: On what night of the season did Jackson sing? Who is the Rangers’ catcher, seen in the background? The Rangers’ catchers that season included Jim Sundberg (we […]
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The Texas Rangers are offering a new item on their menu.
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Reportedly, the four-time All-Star and MVP fell off the wagon earlier this week, hoisting a drink (or more?) at a pub in Dallas. Fellow Texas Ranger Ian Kinsler supposedly came to the establishment to convince his teammate to leave. Of course, I feel sorry for Hamilton, if all this is true; I’m a benefit-of-the-doubt kind […]
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At the risk of sounding jingoistic, if the Fall Classic doesn’t take place in New York, it posts a problem for local sports pages. How much should they be writing, and would their readers care that much. So you go looking for filler. In this case The New York Times published this cool piece last […]
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Find any link you can, because goodness knows, if it’s not “about them,” they ain’t interested. Fox TV Blackout Tests Old Giants Fans’ Ingenuity Anything Can Happen in a San Francisco Series A First in Either San Francisco or Texas On the other hand, there’s a neat feature on World Series gloves through the years. […]
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(Because you can put either a small TV or an American flag on your bookshelf.)
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Mike Shropshire’s book, as reviewed on The National Sports Review site.
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As reviewed on Gaslamp.com, “San Diego Padres baseball in the form of a blog.”
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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
Context is all: Ian Kinsler and ESPN The Magazine
March 7, 2014
It should come as no surprise that the ESPN The Magazine article about Ian Kinsler referred to earlier this week on my other blog, has generated some buzz. In the grand scale of things, it won’t matter, but for now, with a routinely dull spring training under way, with A-Rod out of the picture, the […]
Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Detroit Tigers, ESPN the Magazine, Ian Kinsler, Texas Rangers
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