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 […]

The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads, by Randall Sullivan Tonight is the 96th Major League All-Star Game. (Or is it? More on that later.) I suppose I will watch out of habit. The first one I ever watched was the 1967 affair that saw the NL win 2-1 in […]

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 […]

Not necessarily. Shohei Ohtani recently hit his 300th home run. It should come as no surprise that his baseball cards can be worth thousands of dollars. But he’s still “trapped” by the fairly standard design of American-made cards. That brought to mind this Bookshelf Conversation I did in 202 with Robert Fitts, the go-to guy […]

Just a few quickies to commemorate the occasion: 64 Major Leaguers were born on Independence Day. The first was Levin Jones (1847) who had 11 at-bats in three games over two seasons (1873-74) for the Baltimore Statistics (now there‘s a nickname).  The most recent is Junior Perez (2001) who made his debut this year with […]