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In my "day job," I'm a writer/sports editor for a New Jersey weekly newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf

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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 1d ago

Review roundup: May 25

Baseball Reflections posted this review of Ozzie’s School of Management: Lessons from the Dugout, the Clubhouse, and the Doghouse.
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 2d ago

‘Bizarro’ beach reading

If you’re so inclined, skip the best-selling edition (Fifty Shades of Grey, anyone?) and dig into this: The 2012-16 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Hours of endless entertainment. Or you can wait for the movie to come out. (Hey, if they did it for Moneyball…)
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 2d ago

Author appearance: Dave Anderson

Well, to be accurate, editor appearance. Anderson helmed the fascinating and entertaining The New York Times Story of the Yankees: 382 Articles, Profiles and Essays from 1903 to Present, a real time-capsule about the Bronx Bombers. Just as interesting as reading about Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle,
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 3d ago

The 501 project: Moving right along

Well, the first round of edits are done. Now it goes to line editing, for a more careful going over. I must say I was disappointed in myself when I got the files back and found so many typos. There are always going to be artistic conflicts over wording. Perhaps if this was a novel [...]
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 3d ago

Review roundup, May 23

Louisiana Voice (Tagline: “Politics at its worst!”)  posted this review of Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, by Gerald Duff. Upshot: “If you are a fan of the grand old game and you are into baseball lore, this book is for you” (isn’t that kind of the same thing?). Slim pickings today, f
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 3d ago

Kinda cool: Bookshelf/Bookreporter review finds expanded audience

I was tooling around for new baseball book reviews and came across this from The Advocate, a website of “news, arts, & events from Berkshire & and Bennington Counties.” Ever craved a good book and just not been inspired by anything you see? Or felt annoyed that you bought a book that was merely so-s
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 3d ago

This week (May 28) in Sports Illustrated

♦ Albert Chen wrote this Matt Kemp feature. ♦ Joe Sheehan’s stat corner: players whose HR/Fly Ball ratio are pretty impressive. ♦ Sheehan on the surprising Baltimore Orioles.
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 3d ago

Right place, right time

Here’s something you don’t see every day. Or ever. Are you paying attention, Zack Hample?
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 4d ago

The Bookshelf Podcast: Dan Ewald

The first celebrity interview I ever did was with Sparky Anderson. I got my freelance start doing book reviews (surprise, surprise), which led to author interviews, which led me to Anderson, who had just come out with They Call Me Sparky (1998). As one might expect in the presence of greatness, I wa
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf · 5d ago

It is to weep: The bizarre story of Sullivan’s Sluggers and Kickstarter

What does this say about society when a couple of guys wishing to raise $6,000 to fund their graphic novel about baseball players and flesh-eating monsters get more than 1,100 folks to pledge more than $38K…with 25 days left to go!  
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