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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf

http://www.rksbaseballbookshelf.wordpress.com

A blog on the national pastime and the written word -- or anything else that can be kept on a bookshelf.

• Added on: Apr 24th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Ron Kaplan
• Listed in: Sports Books
• Tags: books baseball literature ron kaplan

Recent Posts

• * New titles from UNP

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 10:07 in history, research, biography, new york yankees, world series, non-fiction, reference, annoucements, new york giants, joe cronin, new title, classic title

  While many people look forward to the holiday catalogs that have already been stuffing mailboxes, or the seed catalogs that start arriving shortly after the new year, I look forward to the book catalogs that come every few months. The latest from the...

• * Back again

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 19:45 in new york yankees, because i can...

  My apologies to those who missed me. I was away, doing my best impersonation of George Plimpton, as an embed at Yankees Fantasy Camp, an experience I will be blogging about here in the near future. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Fantasy Camp ...

• Tampa Story

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 19:48 in fantasy baseball, tommy john, ron blomberg, fritz peterson, roy white, player-written book, 2009 title, yankees fantasy camp

  (Based on the famous movie named after another Florida city.) Just got out of dinner. Reggie Jackson gave a very sweet speech about Yankee tradition and how the players at Yankees Fantasy Camp exemplify those virtues. The managers of my team — ...

• * Tampa Bay, safe and sound

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 13:13 in fantasy baseball, new york yankees, because i can..., 2009 title

  Just arrived at the Tampa Bay Sheraton Suites, where I will spend the next week as an embedded journalist at Yankee Fantasy Camp, specifically writing about the new Kosher component. Ran into an old “colleague,” Bryan Hoch, who covers the...

• * RK Review: Playing with the Enemy

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 10:54 in World War II, history, older title, review by ron kaplan, baseball in war time

  A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams, by Gary W. Moore I wanted to wait a bit after Veteran’s Day because I didn’t want this to appear as a knock against the vets. I have nothing but respect for them, their se...

• * Let us not have any cross words

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 14:16 in magazines, trivia, because i can...

  Unless it’s the one in the Nov. 16 issue of New York magazine, which features a theme of “Baseball Hall-of-Fame Anagrams.” Sorry, but it doesn’t appear to be on their website. ...

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