Southold Historical Museum’s Virtual Lecture “Baseball on the North Fork”

Southold Historical Museum is pleased to offer a virtual presentation entitled: “Baseball on the North Fork” by Thomas Dyja, as the second installment in the “Fun and Games” Winter Virtual Lecture Series.
 
For 150 years, the towns of the North Fork have used baseball to create identity and community. Writer and Orient resident Thomas Dyja, curator of last summer's baseball show at the Oysterponds Historical Society, will take us through this colorful history, with special attention paid to the game's rich legacy in Southold, always one its strongholds on the North Fork.
 
The free virtual lecture, hosted by Southold Historical Museum, is March 5, 2022 at 11am and will be held via Zoom.  Attendees are asked to register here or directly here.  Registrants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
 
Thomas Dyja is the author of the critically-acclaimed New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation, and The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. His novel Play for a Kingdom, about baseball during the Civil War, won the Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 1994.