Hear Stories from Baseball History During “The Boys of Autumn” at the Upper Shores Library

LAVALLETTE – Join author Phil Coffin at the Upper Shores Branch of the Ocean County Library for “The Boys of Autumn: Stories from Baseball History” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 16.

Autumn is full of baseball tales, like the first modern World’s Series (as it was called), full of talk of players betting openly on games and labor issues with the owners. The fall also brought the biggest base-running in the sport’s history and the first of what is now hundreds of Dominican ballplayers.

Learn about these stories and others from Phil Coffin, author of A Baseball Book of Days: Thiry-One Moments that Transformed the Game and When Baseball Was Still Topps: Portraits of the Game in 1959, Card by Card. Coffin, a longtime New York Times editor, lives in Point Pleasant Beach and has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research since 1994.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Upper Shores Branch. The Friends are volunteers who help preserve, strengthen, and support the library through supporting branch activities, sponsoring fundraisers, and attending community and civic events as library advocates. Visit theoceancountylibrary.org/oclfriends or stop by your local OCL branch to learn how to get involved.

This program is geared towards teens, adults, and seniors.

Registration is required for this free program. To register, visit tinyurl.com/AutumnOCL, call 732-793-3996, or stop by the branch at 112 Jersey City Avenue, Lavallette. Registration will open August 19.