Friday, May 12, 2006
Jackie MacMullan, of The Boston Globe
Author of and Speaking on: "Geno : In Pursuit of Perfection"
Friday, June 23, 2006
Bill "Spaceman" Lee and Joe Castiglione
Speaking on their respective books: “Have Glove, Will Travel” and “Broadcast Rites and Sites: I saw it on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox.”
Friday, July 28, 2006
Tom Oliphant -- one of America's most distinguished journalists
Author of and Speaking on: "Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers"
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Friday, May 12, 2006
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series proudly presents:
Jackie MacMullan, of The Boston Globe
Author of and Speaking on: "Geno : In Pursuit of Perfection"
12-Noon Luncheon
Crown Royal Room -- Fenway Park (enter off Brookline Avenue)
Red Sox Nation Members, $40
Non-Members, $50
(autographed copy of Ms. MacMullan's book included)
To register for this event please contact Meghan Donovan of the Red Sox at 617-267-9440, or via e-mail: mdonovan@redsox.com.
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Jackie MacMullan of The Boston Globe speaks Friday, May 12. Ms. MacMullan is the author of a new book on one of sports most fascinating individuals – Geno Auriemma, the hugely successful women’s basketball coach at the University of Connecticut. A former college basketball star, Ms. MacMullan has written what will certainly be the definitive book on the Huskies’ coach. Before joining The Globe as both an editor and sports columnist, she worked for Sports Illustrated. Her two previous books, "Bird Watching : On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love" (co-authored with basketball legend Larry Bird) and "Magic & Bird: Basketball's Awed Couple", were critically acclaimed. Those who read Ms. MacMullan in The Globe know her interests include more than basketball, as she writes often, and brilliantly, about baseball and the Red Sox. Jackie MacMullan is one extremely engaging and talented human being, as her writing over the years in SI and The Globe have demonstrated. Now, that knowledge is shared by her growing radio and television audience.
An autographed copy of Ms. MacMullan's new book, "Geno : In Pursuit of Perfection", will be given to those who attend the May 12 luncheon. The price to Red Sox Nation members for both the book and baseball buffet will be $40, to non-member, $45. |
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Friday, June 23, 2006
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series proudly presents:
Bill "Spaceman" Lee and Joe Castiglione
Speaking on their respective books: “Have Glove, Will Travel” and “Broadcast Rites and Sites: I saw it on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox.”
12-Noon Luncheon
Crown Royal Room -- Fenway Park (enter off Brookline Avenue)
Red Sox Nation Members, $40
Non-Members, $50
(autographed copies of Mr. Lee's and Mr. Castiglione's books included)
To register for this event please contact Meghan Donovan of the Red Sox at 617-267-9440, or via e-mail: mdonovan@redsox.com. |
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Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the celebrated philosopher and left-handed pitcher (some may think that an oxymoron), pitched 10 seasons for the Red Sox (1969-78) and was an integral part of the starting rotation during that time. Despite his success on the mound, however, he would become more famous for his eccentric personality than his pitching. On his approach to life and the realm of the mind, Jon Goode, a writer, quotes Mr. Lee: "I don’t ask questions, I answer questions. I do things spontaneously and not pre-meditated. I take things as they come and live my life in the present. What I do everyday is what I want to do." Mr. Lee stays extremely busy. He owns his own bat company in New Brunswick called The Old Bat Company. Odd that, a pitcher owning a bat company, but its part of his undeniable charm. Mr. Lee comes to the series to talk about his books, of which there are three, but with special emphasis upon the third.
Joe Castiglione, is in his 23rd season behind the microphone on Red Sox radio. He previously handled play-by-play for the Cleveland Indians on TV in 1979 and 1982 and broadcast the Milwaukee Brewers on TV in 1981. The Hamden, CT native has announced the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, and did college basketball on New England Sports Network for six winters. During the off-season, he teaches broadcast journalism courses at Northeastern University and Franklin Pierce College. Joe also works in fund raising for the Jimmy Fund. |
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Friday, July 28, 2006
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series Proudly Presents:
Tom Oliphant -- one of America's most distinguished journalists
Author of and Speaking on: "Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers"
12-Noon Luncheon
Crown Royal Room -- Fenway Park (enter off Brookline Avenue)
Red Sox Nation Members, $40
Non-Members, $50
(autographed copy of Mr. Oliphant's book included)
To register for this event please contact Meghan Donovan of the Red Sox at 617-267-9440, or via e-mail: mdonovan@redsox.com.
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Thomas Oliphant was The Boston Globe's special Washington columnist from 1968-2005. A native of Brooklyn, a product of La Jolla High School in San Diego, and a 1967 graduate of Harvard College, he had a long and distinguished career with The Globe. In addition to his reporting from Washington he covered the political, urban and campus unrest of the 1960s. In Washington he wrote about the economy, from Richard Nixon's wage and price controls to Ronald Reagan's $200 billion deficits to Bill Clinton's balanced budget; the energy crisis and its aftermath; the Watergate, Iran-Contra and Clinton scandals, every presidential campaign since 1968 and every White House since Lyndon Johnson's. Following President Nixon's resignation, he was one of three editors on special assignment who managed The Globe's coverage of Boston's traumatic school desegregation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He also co-authored a series of special editorials on the energy crisis which was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. He has also won the writing award given by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, among other official recognitions. He obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Globe in 1971, and his coverage of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973 earned him the Elijah Thomas Lovejoy Award as well as a three-count criminal indictment from the Nixon Justice Department, eventually dismissed. A frequent guest on television, he most recently was the the analyst for the Public Broacasting Service's live coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial with Jim Lehrer. He has also appeared on ABC's ``Nightline,'' the ``McNeill-Lehrer Report,'' ``Face The Nation,'' ``The Today Show,'' ``Good Morning America'' and ``CBS This Morning.'' His account of the 1988 presidential campaign, ``All By Myself,'' written with Christine Black, was published in 1989. He has been named one of the country's Top Ten political writers and one of Washington's 50 most influential journalists by Washington Magazine. Mr. Oliphant lives in Washington with his wife, CBS correspondent Susan Spencer, when they are not growing hay on their farm near Sperryville, Va.
While a Dodger fan gowing up in Brooklyn, Mr. Oliphant subsequently became a fan of the Red Sox (his country home in Virginia is called "Fenway"). |
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