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The New York Game
April 18 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Play Ball! It’s baseball season and LW! is pitching a hugely entertaining history of baseball and NYC.
Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game.
Historian Kevin Baker (a real major leaguer) returns to LW! to share his behind-the-plate account of America’s national pastime in the country’s largest city. Visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters—both the game and the city had them all. Baker introduces us to the motley/larger-than-life crew of New York hustlers, scalawags, and dreamers who made baseball such a popular and compelling game.
It will be an evening of fascinating stories, tracing the game’s first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards to the game played by legends at the end of World War II.
This is a bases-loaded, homer-at-the-bottom-of-the-9th occasion. Grab a spot in the LW! bleachers and wait for the wind-up: Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series?