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* RK Review: Munson
The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, by Marty Appel (Doubleday) I doubt there’s anyone better qualified to write the biography of the late catcher than Appel, who served the Yankees for many … more →
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
* RK Review: Munson
ronkaplan wrote 4 days ago: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, by Marty Appel (Doubleday) I doubt there’s anyone bett … more →
* RK Review: Playing with the Enemy
ronkaplan wrote 2 weeks ago: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams, by Gary W. Moore I wanted to wait … more →
* Now hear this: Frank Ceresi
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ronkaplan wrote 2 weeks ago: Of all the sub-genres of baseball books, my favorite is are the coffee table editions. Usually publi … more →
* Review: Sixty Feet, Six Inches
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ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: The New York Times Book Review published this article by David Leonhardt, who writes a weekly econom … more →
* RK Review: Miracle Ball: The Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World
ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: by Brian Biegel. Crown, 2009. Miracle Ball is at once a sweet and haunting book. The premise has the … more →
* RK Review: Holy Land Hardball
ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: For all the best intentions, hopes, and excitement, the Israel Baseball League lasted just one seaso … more →
* Award-winning film gives new meaning to "silent spring"
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ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: Congratulations to the cast and crew of Signs of the Time, winner of the Award for Baseball Excelle … more →
* RK Review: Some 'Days' are better than others
ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: Abrams publishers has come out with some very neat books over the last couple of years. The house, w … more →
* RK Review: 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports
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ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Sh … more →
* One-shot deals
ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: With the Mets season just about over, I needed to find new ways to amuse myself. When I was a kid at … more →
* RK reviews: The End of Baseball and Safe at Home
ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: I don’t often read baseball fiction these days. I find them too hit-or-miss, pardon the metaph … more →
* RK Review: Once Upon the Polo Grounds
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ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: The Mets That Were, by Leonard Shecter, Dial Press, 1970. It is generally accepted that Shea Stadium … more →
* From the RK vault: 1999
ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a roundup of reviews I did 10 years ago for Book Page, a “trade” publicatio … more →
* RK Review: Double Play
ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: by Robert B. Parker. Putnam, 2004. Robert B. Parker’s heroes epitomize the strong silent types … more →
* RK reviews: Red Sox oldies but goodies
ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: Wife and daughter are at the Sawx-Tigers game at the moment, so I thought it appropriate to haul the … more →
* Elysian Fields Quarterly: Where it all began
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ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: For me, as a freelance writer, anyway. My first major published piece was a review of Shoeless Joe a … more →
* RK review: More baseball fiction
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ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: A version of this review originally appeared on Purebaseball.com in 2001. Summer is firmly entrenche … more →
* RK Review: Fiction by W.P. Kinsella
ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: Japanese Baseball and Other Stories, by W.P. Kinsella (Thistledown Press, 2000) Baseball Fantastic, … more →
* But seriously, folks...
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ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: Had a good time at the SABR convention in DC. It was nice too meet so many folks who are just as nut … more →
