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 […]

Back when it actually was a “digest,” the then- monthly publication devoted its March issue to up-and-coming players. The March 1970 offering touted “Scouting Reports on…Rookies from the Confidential Files of Major League Clubs,” which I’m guessing was hyperbolic. Each “capsule” included the player’s DOB, height, weight, throwing and batting sides, a few minor league […]

On this date in 1988, Orel Hershiser — who would go on to unanimously win the NL Cy Young Award — clinched the World Championship for the LA Dodgers with a 5-2 win over the Oakland As. Hershiser was 3-0 with a 1.05 ERA for the postseason after going 23-8 during the regular campaign in […]

On this date in 2004, the Boston Red Sox came all the way back from a 3-0 deficit to the NY Yankees in the ALCS to win their first pennant since 1986. They would go on to win their first World Championship in 86 years, “reversing the curse,” as the saying goes. As you can […]

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 […]