Join Friends of McGolrick and Greenpoint Library for a talk with local historian, author, and neighbor, Tom Gilbert who will discuss how baseball's origins are intertwined with the history of New York City and Brooklyn.
Tom is the author of many books, including Playing First, which tells the stories of dozens of 19th-century baseball men who are buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery, and How Baseball Happened, a divergent take on the game's origins and spread that won the 2020 Casey Award for best baseball book of the year.
