Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]
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* Josh Wilker’s forthcoming book, Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad’s Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures gets a thumbs up from Kirkus. Upshot: “This almanac of fatherhood (and other failures) is honest, relatable and humorous—an indispensable read for fathers (and sons) whose joy in life comes not from winning the big game but being alive to […]
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What the heck is toddlin’ anyway? The Chicago Tribune posted several items of literary baseball interest recently. ♦ Rob Manker on the 30th anniversary of the publication of W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe. One of the scarier points: many kids who first read the book now have kids of their own. ♦ James Finn Garner, who […]
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W. P. Kinsella was awarded the 2011 Jack Graney Award, presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame for a “significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada through a life’s work or for a singular outstanding achievement.” The award is named for one of the first Canadian baseball players to enjoy success in the […]
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It’s been a long time since we’ve enjoyed a new baseball project from the pen/typewriter/computer of W.P. Kinsella. Well, the wait is over. Kinsella has recently released Name Your Link, which tells the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins whose divine destiny for baseball begins with games of catch in the womb. They mature […]
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Thanks to a comment by Robert Loy, I had a “Homer Simpson” moment for totally forgetting about a crucial Salinger/baseball connection. Loy wrote, “What I want to know is why the ever-litigious Salinger didn’t sue Bill Kinsella over being included in ‘Shoeless Joe.’ And if he was okay with it why did they change it […]
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Japanese Baseball and Other Stories, by W.P. Kinsella (Thistledown Press, 2000) Baseball Fantastic, edited by W. P. Kinsella (Quarry Press, 2001) It’s been some time since W.P. Kinsella has come out with new baseball fiction. The author of such memorable novels as Shoeless Joe, Box Socials and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy and shorter works, The […]
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From The Henry Wiggen Blog, this review of the W.P. Kinsella classic and Eric Role Greenberg’s novel.
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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
