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APRIL 2016
Boston's historic Gibson House Museum will be holding its annual spring baseball event on Thursday, April 14 with speakers covering topics of interest to Boston Braves fans. Of special note will be the appearance of speaker Wayne Soini who collaborated with BBHA member and son of Tribe owner Judge Emil Fuchs, the late Bob Fuchs, on a wonderful book, Judge Fuchs and the Boston Braves. The book can be found on amazon.com: In addition, Bill Nowlin will be part of the program. Bill is a BBHA member and has made significant research contributions on the Braves and Braves Field, including in publications on the 1914 Miracle Braves, the 1948 season and the recent book on Braves Field. Donna Halper, another participant in the program, penned two excellent pieces in Braves Field: Memorable Moments At Boston's Lost Diamond.
Below is the Gibson House press release. Note that BBHA members are being offered a special discount on program tickets. This link takes you to the museum site: http://www.thegibsonhouse.org/events.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
www.thegibsonhouse.org/events.html
617-267-6338
Michelle Coughlin, Museum Administrator
Gibson House Museum Presents Its Fifth Annual Program on
Early Baseball in Boston:
A Look at the Era through the Lens of Local Baseball History
BOSTON, MA Issued March x, 2016…. Baseball fans have a chance to explore the game’s present and revisit its past on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The Gibson House Museum, in conjunction with the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and the Boston Braves Historical Association (BBHA), proudly presents “Boston Baseball: The Blue Period 1920–1935.” During the era of the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and Prohibition, both the Red Sox and Braves staked claim to a fifteen-year period of lackluster performances. Yet although their playing may have been mediocre, the teams’ histories during this period were anything but dull. Both featured controversial owners (Emil Fuchs and Harry Frazee) and colorful players (Casey Stengel, Smead Jolley, Ernie Padgett—Who? Attend and find out!).
Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Gibson House Museum at 137 Beacon Street, Boston, with a “Ballpark Cocktail Hour” featuring beer, hot dogs, and crackerjacks. The program, hosted by local authors Bill Nowlin, Wayne Soini, and Donna Halper, gets underway at 6:30 p.m. at the Trustees Reading Room at Fisher College (across the street at 118 Beacon Street).
Bill Nowlin has written or edited approximately fifty books, almost all on Boston baseball. He recently co-edited (with Bob Brady) a compendium of stories about Braves Field. Bill is currently co-editing a book on the 1871–75 Boston Red Stockings. A co-founder of Rounder Records music label, he also works occasionally as a professor of political science.
Wayne Soini helped the late Bob Fuchs write a book about his father, Judge Fuchs and the Boston Braves, 1923–1935. Wayne is the author of seven books (with two more forthcoming) primarily on New England topics.
Donna L. Halper is an Associate Professor of Communications at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. A media historian who specializes in the history of broadcasting, she is the author of six books and many articles, including chapters for several SABR volumes. Donna will discuss how the invention of radio changed baseball forever, and how early media and athletes enjoyed a different relationship than they do today.
Tickets: $30 in advance, $35 at the door (Early registration encouraged – space is limited!), with a special $25 admission for members of the Gibson House Museum, the SABR, the BBHA, the Boston Preservation Alliance, the Ayer Mansion, the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, and the Victorian Society.
For more information or to purchase tickets, email info@thegibsonhouse.org or call 617-267-6338.
The Gibson House Museum is an authentic nineteenth-century Boston row house located at 137 Beacon Street. Built in 1859, it is one of Back Bay’s earliest homes and stands as the area’s only historic house museum. The museum is open to the public and preserved as a time capsule of the daily life of a well-to-do Boston family and its domestic staff. The Gibson House Museum is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the Massachusetts State Register of Historic Places.