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* Road trip: Louisville Slugger Museum
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | October 7th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
The Chicago Sun-Times posted this extensive article on the Louisville Slugger Museum in, well, Louisville And when you go, bring me back a souvenir. read more
* Jon Scher, what were you thinking?
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | September 26th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
ESPN offers this interesting insight for The Magazine’s baseball editors on their thoughts for feature stories that ran during 2008. Among the top items: The Preview Issues, fantasy and “real life” Profiles on Greg Maddux, Elijah D read more
* SABR’s Bibliography Committee Newsletter
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | September 15th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
Bibliography Committee Newsletter, September 2008 Features Skip McAfee’s review of The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved Leverett T. Smith’s review of The Curt Flood Story: The Man Be read more
* Mark your calendars: Replay review starts Thursday
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | August 26th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
According to a press release from Major League Baseball, limited replay review begins Aug. 28 in three series: Minnesota at Oakland, Texas at Los Angeles and Phillies at Chicago. The rest of the teams will begin on Friday. The statement announces th read more
* SI online needs more quality control
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | July 24th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
Before the advent of the wonderful Sports Illustrated “Vault” archives, the magazine’s only presence had a little more pizzazz than it seems to these days. Maybe the company doesn’t want to devote time or resources to making t read more
* Old school vs. new
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | June 28th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
Buzz Bissinger is no fan of blogs. So by extension, he might not have much empathy for will Leitch and Deadspin. Here’s a snippet of Bissinger vs. Leitch on an episode of Bob Costas’ HBO program: (The whole piece can be seen on the Deads read more
* Shocker of the day
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | June 27th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
From Editor and Publisher’s Web site: “Study: Newspaper Sports Departments Mostly Male, White“ Newspaper sports departments remain nearly all white and male — and progress towards diversity is painfully slow, concludes a ̶ read more
* Baseball’s life lessons
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | June 27th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
This interesting piece from InsideHighered.com on how Bull Durham serves as a metaphor for the academic world. My classes have come to a close for another year while professional baseball is finding its summer stride. I have come to see that my class read more
* Announcement: ESPN Books to partner with Ballantine
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | June 5th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
The publishing company, not the beer manufacturer. Wait, do they even make Ballantine anymore? I’m showing my age. Anyway, according to an item in the Publisher’s Weekly Web site, this will result in “10 to 12 titles annually, rang read more
* Another one bites the dust
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | June 4th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
From the NY Daily News, this article about the demise of Paperbacks Plus, the last independent bookstore in the Bronx. …every Yankee baseball player-cum-author has held a book signing at Paperbacks Plus, including Yogi Berra, Paul O’Neill read more
* Spring SABR Biblio Committee Newsletter
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | May 27th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
for those interested in such things. Spring 2008 Newsletter This issue’s reviews and features include: Dreaming Baseball, by James Farrell. Reviewed by Leverett T. Smith, Jr. Baseball Magic, by Jay Martin. Reviewed by Robert W. Hamblin. Rob Ne read more
* ForeWord sidebar: “And now a word from our druggist”
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | May 20th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
[This appears as a sidebar to the "Class in Session" article in the May/June 2008 issue of ForeWord Magazine.] And now a word from our druggist Raymond Angelo Belliotti’s Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy devotes a chapter to Jose Canseco and read more
* Class in session
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf | May 20th 2008 by Ron Kaplan
[This piece appears in the May/June issue of ForeWord Magazine.] Baseball books: Class is in session The notion that baseball is a metaphor for life has been around since man first took bat to ball. In reality, it’s more appropriate to say that th read more
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