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* Announcement: Branch Rickey bio wins SABR Award
Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best baseball history or biography of 2007. Also recognized as “finalists” were Connie Mack a… more »
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* Announcement: Branch Rickey bio wins SABR Award
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ronkaplan wrote 1 month ago: Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman has been awarded the Seymour Medal as the best … more »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
* 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 »
Veteran sports photographer bats 400 -- dollars, that is
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ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: Would you pay $400 for a book of baseball photographs? One thousand bibliophiles did. Some didn’t … more »
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 »
Bits and pieces
ronkaplan wrote 4 months ago: PinstripesPA reviews Haunted Baseball by Dan Gordon and Mickey Bradley, while Tailgatecrashers post … more »
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 »
Catching up
ronkaplan wrote 5 months ago: Lots of “Bits and Pieces” With little beside the steroids business going on during this … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
