Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf

08/20/2026

Wordpress is informing me that I should update and back up my blog. Also BlueHost wants me to do some updating as well. But as a non-tech savvy person, I am worried that I will eff it up and lose everything. Is there someone out there conversant in WordPress who can talk me through the process? Please DM. Merci.

06/19/2024

Just heard: Willie Mays has died at the age of 93.

06/15/2024

My review of "The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness" just dropped on Bookreporter.com.

https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-last-of-his-kind-clayton-kershaw-and-the-burden-of-greatness

Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all. He is a three-time Cy Young award winner, the first pitcher to win National League MVP since Bob Gibson, and a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer. In an age when baseball be...

05/30/2024

Once again, being older is an asset:

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05/13/2024

"This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. "

It USED to be simple.

05/13/2024

Baseball is a simple game?

Not anymore.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/illustrator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhML1WAGkCs

04/27/2024

woo hoo.

04/16/2024

To my fellow baseball fans: when did "defensive indifference " become a thing?

04/15/2024

The latest from Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf

I've may have mentioned a project I'm working on: collecting obituaries of ballplayers that have appeared in The New York Times with the notion of how a player is identified in the opening lines. Here's what Bruce Weber had to say in today's edition, which had a