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.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
Statistical Theory
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2 12 2008Spitball Magazine just announced the finalists for the 2008 CASEY Award,
The Casey Award was inaugurated in 1983 by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, the editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, and was the first award to honor the authors and publishers of the best baseball book of the year.
Some of the greatest names in baseball literature, including Roger Kahn, Bill James, John Holway, and Harold Seymour, among others, have won the CASEY.
The award will be presented to the winning author at the annual Casey Banquet, held in the Cincinnati area on a date as yet to be determined.
Problem is, how do you compare a wonderful children’s book (Ship) with a gorgeous coffee table book (Ballet) with a scholarly treatment (Barrow)? If these were all biographies or all of any one genre, it would make more sense (to this humble observer).
If I was on the selection committee, my vote would go to the Leifer book, in a tight duel with Red Sox Threads.