Early Baseball in Boston

When:
Monday, May 21, 2018 5:30p -
7:30p

Where:
The Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon St.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

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Admission:
$30

Categories:
Alcohol, Food, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, Sports & Active Life

Event website:
http://www.thegibsonhouse.org/events.html

Join us as we honor and memorialize the World Champion 1918 Red Sox...
with Red Sox Team Historian Gordon Edes and Skip Desjardin, author of the forthcoming book, September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series.


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 gets underway at 6:30 p.m. at the Trustees Reading Room at Fisher College (across the street at 118 Beacon Street). Gibson House Museum supporter Robert Goodof will moderate, leading a "fireside chat" with Mr. Edes and Mr. Desjardin.


Pre-registration for the program and the Fenway Park tour is necessary at
http://www.thegibsonhouse.org/events.html
Tickets for the 5:30 p.m. program are $30, with a special $25 admission for members of the Gibson House Museum, the Boston Braves Historical Association, the BoSox Club, the Boston Preservation Alliance, the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, the Society for American Baseball Research, and the Victorian Society.


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The year 1918 represents a watershed period in the history of the nation, the Commonwealth, and the Boston Red Sox. The world was at war, and a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France, turning the tide in what we now call World War I. But death was not confined to the battlefield. The world’s deadliest pandemic, the Spanish Flu, swept across Boston and its suburbs, leaving in its wake unimaginable loss and sorrow beyond that already inflicted by war.

Meanwhile, the Red Sox were cementing their place as baseball’s first great dynasty and in 1918 would win their 5th World Series in 16 seasons—and their last in 86 years. Their star pitcher, Babe Ruth, would soon be sparring with the club’s new owner, a theater impresario named Harry Frazee. A little more than a year following the 1918 World Series win, Frazee would sell the Babe to the New York Yankees in a deal that would define two franchises for the better part of a century.

Joining to tell the story of that momentous year will be Red Sox Team Historian Gordon Edes, a former sports journalist for the Boston Globe and ESPN, and Skip Desjardin, author of the forthcoming book, September 1918: War, Plague, and the World Series. Desjardin, a 30-year media veteran, has worked as a journalist, television anchor, producer, and programming executive.
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Prior to the program, Edes will offer a special tour of Fenway Park at 3:30 p.m. The tour is limited to 30. This is a unique opportunity to get a special, behind-the-scenes look at the park from the perspective of a sports journalist and historian who has covered the team for decades.


Tickets for the 3:30 p.m. tour of Fenway Park are $10. Registrants should bring their e-mail receipt to the meeting point of 4 Yawkey Way.


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Built in 1859, the Gibson House Museum, located at 137 Beacon St. , is one of the Back Bay’s earliest homes and stands as the area’s only historic house museum. It 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.

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