Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf
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Ron Kaplan by Arnold Roth
In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
What I’m reading
What I'm reading now: Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
So far, so: funny and depressing
What I just read: The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie
A good reminder of those who served. B+
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MUZZY FIELD: TALES FROM A FORGOTTEN BALLPARK
Grade: Every town has a palce like this. A nice piece of Americana. B
What's next: Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
Statistical Theory
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14 12 2007An excerpt from the press conference:
Commissioner Selig’s response:
Who says only Americans really care about the steroids scandal?
One more response:
A commentary by Sports Illustrated’s redoubtable Tom Verducci. Another from the Business of Baseball Web site. And an in-depth piece from Editor and Publisher, of all places. This one is interesting, because it puts the onus of the problem on the sportswriters who, according to the author of the piece, basically ignored the situation.
SI.com has a slide show of player’s checks submitted as evidence.
Read the entire report here (a PDF file).