Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
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My regular Fall baseball book roundup — all revolving around the World Series — was posted to Bookreporter.com this evening. Titles include: The Machine, by Joe Posnanski Game Six, by Mark Frost Perfect, by Lew Paper The Original Curse, by Sean Deveney The First Fall Classic, by Mike Vaccaro The careful reader will not I […]
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Lew Paper, that is, author of the new book on Don Larsen’s World series no-hitter. Bill Littlefield offered this commentary on the Oct. 17 episode of Only a Game: In a new book misleadingly titled Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, Lew Paper, the author, tells a […]
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Tis the season. As the summer game segues into fall’s finales, no less than five titles deal with the World Series, including two about the 1975 games between the Red Sox and Reds, one about Don Larsen’s 1956 perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, and But the one that goes back the furthest is The […]
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How the mighty — and not so mighty — have fallen: According to this story on the Sports Collector’s Daily website Dykstra’s 1986 World Series Ring Brings $56,762 I wonder if Baseball Americana had time to include it.
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The Times of Trenton published this review of Jayson Stark’s new book about the World Championship Phils.
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From PhillyScout.com. And how nice is it that it;s reprinted on RaysScout.com, the “sister site” for the tampa bay (and World Series’ loser) Rays.
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Another former player turns (co)author in Phillies Confidential: The Untold Story of the 2008 Championship Season. (How anything of importance remains untold in this day and age is a mystery.) Matthews — not to be confused with teammate Gary “The Secretary of State” Maddox — was with the team from 1981-83, thereby missing the last […]
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Your new baseball world champs. Look for a new title (at least) will be added to the existing Phillies’ bibliography in the months to come.
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I’m not pretending to be the most patriotic guy in the country, but there are some things that bug me: American flags that are displayed in states of disrepair, not taking your hat off for the National Anthem, and performers who use it as a personal platform for their ego. To me, it’s like a […]
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One more reason that the current NY Times is not your granddaddy’s newspaper. The history of the World Series home run on TV (video).
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From NPR, this item about those stupid bets politicians make on their teams at World Series time.
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The baseball post-season takes a back seat to the NBA pre-season as the cover story. Tom Verducci writes the headliner about the Rays in the World Series, while Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus gives the slight nod to Tampa to win in six. Meanwhile, back in Philly…
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The Numbers Guy column in the Oct. 21 The Wall Street Journal published this piece on the likelihood of Tampa fans winning a freebie from Taco Bell. All one of the players has to do during the entire World Series is steal a base. Doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Either Taco Bell is […]
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So just who do those Brits think they are, printing a piece like “How Baseball Explains the U.S. Elections“? Somewhere I’m sure there’s an article about World Series winners as a predictor of the Presidential elections. Hmm, let’s see. Since the first World Series in 1903 (the Fall Classic wasn’t played in 1904), 25 have […]
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Every now and again we have someone who brings up the question: Did Babe Ruth actually “call” his home run in the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs? Many say no, some, like this gentleman, swear he did. Who’s to say? Grainy film of the event make it difficult to tell with absolute certainty. […]
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From the Sports Locker blog.
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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
* As Steve Martin used to say…
November 5, 2009
“But the most amazing thing of all: I get paid for doing this” (the closing lines for one of the comedian’s songs during his heyday in the late 1970s). I bring it up because, once again, it goes to the folly of using sports pundits as a source of reliable information. At least when it […]
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