Ron Kaplan is the sports and fea­tures edi­tor for the New Jer­sey Jew­ish News, where he hosts Kaplan’s Korner, a blog about Jews and sports. His first book, 501 Base­ball Books Fans Must Read before They Die, was pub­lished in 2013. His arti­cle and book reviews have appeared in numer­ous nation­al and inter­na­tion­al pub­li­ca­tions. Kaplan lives in Mont­clair, NJ.