Spring training will have just started for Major League Baseball, but major league authors will be in mid-season form as Middlesex County College hosts \u201cA Night of Baseball Readings & Writings\u201d on March 6. The program will include four local authors discussing baseball and their books. The first pitch is at 6:30 p.m. in the Gallery, on the top floor of the College Center. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to this free event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to be a great evening for baseball fans and for those who are interested in history and sociology,\u201d said Mark Thompson, director of the College library. \u201cWe\u2019ve lined up four very accomplished authors who will share their experiences and talk baseball. We will also have a panel discussion, which allows the audience to ask questions and interact with the authors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawrence Hogan, senior professor of history at Union County College, is one of the nation\u2019s foremost experts on baseball\u2019s Negro Leagues. He is the principal author of \u201cShades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball.\u201d Dr. Hogan\u2019s recent talks include the opening for the \u201cHistory of Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium\u201d and \u201cPride & Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience,\u201d a traveling exhibit organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. He will speak on \u201cPride & Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Morales, the author of \u201cFarewell to the Last Golden Era: The Yankees, the Pirates and the 1960 Baseball Season,\u201d is a professor of history at Bergen Community College. He will speak on the founding of the New York Mets 50 years ago in \u201cInventing a Tradition: Casey Stengel, Gil Hodges, and the First Year of the New York Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gene Racz and Frank Russo have written \u201cBury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball,\u201d a volume of stories on the many unusual ways the early baseball players died. The two writers investigated and compiled this volume of stories on the bizarre, hard-to-believe, and fascinating ways that some of the early ball players met their end. Mr. Racz is a staff writer of the \u201cHome News Tribune,\u201d and Mr. Russo publishes a website, www.thedeadballera.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a very eclectic group of very interesting authors,\u201d Mr. Thompson said. \u201cI think it is going to make for a fascinating night, and also a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring training will have just started for Major League Baseball, but major league authors will be in mid-season form as Middlesex County College hosts \u201cA Night of Baseball Readings & Writings\u201d on March 6. The program will include four local authors discussing baseball and their books. The first pitch is at 6:30 p.m. in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":780,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}