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
What I just read:
Paul McCarthey: A Life:, by Peter Ames Carlin
Grade: B. Pleasant enough; no sensational material. McCartney could be a right bastard at times, but aren't we all?
What's next:
L'Époque Glorieuse des Expos, by Alain Usereau
Book contributions
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
Statistical Theory
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* Hail to the chief
6 01 2009At least that’s what it seems like when teams have press conferences to show off their new acquisitions, such as the one today for the Yankees’ Mark Teixeira.
With all due respect, what can these guys possibly have to say that warrants such attention? I just keep coming up the same old rote answers. (Warning: blue language ahead.)
In Teixeira’s case: “I’m getting a chance to play for the greatest organization in sports history.”
Photo credit: Barton Silverman/The New York Times
Booorrring.