Why were those naughty words written on the knob of Billy Ripken’s bat in his 1989 Fleer card?
More on the card here, from CNBC.
Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf
Our motto: “If it can fit on a bookshelf, it fits here.”
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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