Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf

Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the […]

I wrote about this back in 2018 but when I heard “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man” on the radio yesterday, it reminded how much I was bothered by one particular verse. The classic Chuck Berry song has been recorded by numerous artists over the years including Buddy Holly, Wanda Jackson, and Sir Paul McCartney. Now I wouldn’t […]

History is Now Magazine posted this piece about “George Rawlings and the Glove That Helped Change Baseball.” Thankfully, the author didn’t use my bugaboo word, “forever,” in the title. If you’re a subscriber to The Wall Street Journal, you will be able to read their review of Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest […]

Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not. A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the […]

I usually don’t get political here (I used to have another blog for that outlet; I really should get back to that one), but yesterday, during the Fauci hearings “Senator Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, demanded to know, using an expletive, who Dr. Fauci thought he was for doing what he did.” That expletive was […]