Blogs about: 2007 Title

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* Announcement: Branch Rickey bio wins SABR Award1 comment

ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best … more »

Tags: Annoucements, Lee Lowenfish, SABR, Branch Rickey, Seymour Medal, baseball book awards

* Baseball book roundup: The New York Times

ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: But the story on these books — Anatomy of Baseball, Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious … more »

Tags: Reviews from other sources, 2008 title, Baseball Books

* Slap to the forehead moment

ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: It just occurred to me why Cait Murphy’s book, Crazy ‘08, has been receiving so much ren … more »

Tags: Chicago Cubs, Crazy 08, Cait Murphy

* RK Review (and bugaboo): The Best Game Ever

ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960, by Jim Reisler (Carroll & Graf) I thought I had addressed … more »

Tags: Review by Ron Kaplan, Reviews from other sources, Baseball book review

* List of book reviews from Greg Spira

ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: This list appeared on the SABR listserve (?). Thanks, to Greg Spira for compiling this extensive col … more »

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Lists, 2008 title, Mini-Reviews, Baseball Books

* Review: Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: An enthusiastic critique of this graphic novel by Comicstory-arc.com. And another from Publisher … more »

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Satchel Paige, graphic novel

* Review: The Stark Truth

ronkaplan wrote 2 months ago: If the reviewer had trouble with this, wait ’til he gets a hold of Derek Gentile’sBaseb … more »

Tags: stats, 2008 title, Rankings, statistics, ratins

* Review: Branch Rickey: The Ferocious Gentlman

ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: I especially get a kick when I find references to baseball books from outlets that have essentially … more »

Tags: Biography, Lee Lowenfish, Branch Rickey

* Happy birthday, Vic Raschi

ronkaplan wrote 3 months ago: Born in 1919, Raschi won 120 games for the Yankees during their juggernaut years, averaging 20 wins … more »

Tags: Birthday Greetings, Biography, New York Yankees, Vic Raschi

Veteran sports photographer bats 400 -- dollars, that is1 comment

ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: Would you pay $400 for a book of baseball photographs? One thousand bibliophiles did. Some didn’t … more »

Tags: Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan, Photography, SANDY KOUFAX, Neil Leifer, Sports Photography, baseball photography

Announcement: Cubs Forever

ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: From the Chicago Sun Times, this report of a local TV documentary on the WGN-Cubs 60-year relationsh … more »

Tags: Industry/Literary Analysis, Annoucements, 2008 title, Triumph Books, Cubs

Bits and pieces

ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: PinstripesPA reviews Haunted Baseball by Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley, while Tailgatecrashers post … more »

Tags: Reviews from other sources, Bits and Pieces, Steroids, "Ball Four", Haunted Baseball, The New Ballgame

It's come to this for I Live for This

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: How long ago did this book come out? Last October? I was at Barnes and Noble on Tuesday and saw it … more »

Tags: Industry/Literary Analysis, Tommy Lasorda

Catching up

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Lots of “Bits and Pieces” With little beside the steroids business going on during this … more »

Tags: 2008 title, Bits and Pieces, Bloggers, Reviews from other sources, Book Reviews

Author interview: Patrick Smith

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Patrick Smith’s 2007 memoir, Extra Innings takes a honest and amusing look at life on the seni … more »

Tags: Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan, McFarland, Patrick Smith, Extra Innings, Interview

Review: Extra Innings

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Extra Innings: The Joy and the Pains of Over-30 Baseball by Patrick Smith McFarland, 2007 As an, ah … more »

Tags: Review by Ron Kaplan, McFarland, New Title, Patrick Smith, Reviews

Author profiles: John and Rick Wolff, The Harvard Boys

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: I had an opportunity to pose a few questions about Harvard Boys with the father and son writing team … more »

Tags: Author profile/interview by Ron Kaplan, Harvard Boys, John Wolf, Rick Wolf, Minor Leagues

Review: Harvard Boys: A Father and Son's Adventures Playing Minor League Basebll

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007 Rick Wolff hosts a straightforward radio show about youth sports on WFAN i … more »

Tags: Review by Ron Kaplan, Harvard Boys, Minor Leagues, Rick Wolff, John Wolff

Review: First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Edited by Michael G. Long. Times Books, 2007. By now, everyone — baseball fan or not — k … more »

Tags: Review by Ron Kaplan, Jackie Robinson, Correspondence, Civil Rights


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