Overview
I'm an award-winning journalist/editor, blogger, and author of three books.
Services
Non-Fiction
Entertainment
Sports & Outdoors
Languages
English (US)
Awards
- Best Blog of the Year 2014, New Jersey Press Association (Kaplan's Korner on Jews and Sports)
- Third Place: Reporting, Writing and Illustration/Business and Economics Writing/Weekly, over 4,500 circulation (2006)
- Third Place: Reporting, Writing and Illustration/Sports Writing Portfolio/Weekly, over 4,500 circulation (2006)
Work experience
Self
Jan, 2013 —
Present
Author of three sports books:
501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games (Sports Publishing, 2015)
Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War ( (Sports Publishing, 2017)
New Jersey Jewish News
Jun, 2004 —
Sep, 2016
(over 12 years)
Sports and Features Editor
Created the award-winning blog, Kaplan's Korner on Jews and Sports
Portfolio
Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the Jewish Olympics,” as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity. The Maccabiah Games, which take place in Isra... read more
Propounding his “small ball theory” of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that “the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature.” Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable—vast and varied, in... read more
Hammerin’” Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he’d hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season).... read more
