June 2025
July 2025
SABR Series: “Out of the Mouth of Babe” with authors Kelly Bennett, Brent Stevens, and Stu Dressler
Join Kelly Bennett, Brent Stevens, and Stu Dressler at 12Pm on Saturday July 12th for our SABR series. A collection of quotes compiled by the author of The House that Ruth Built, Kelly Bennett, in collaboration with Brent Stevens, Babe Ruth’s great-grandson, and Stu Dressler, a long-time friend of the Ruth-Stevens family. “Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.” —Babe Ruth With forewords by Tom Stevens, Babe Ruth’s grandson, and Marty…
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SABR Series: “Big Cat: Story of Johnny Mize” with author Jerry Grillo
Join author Jerry Grillo at the Birthplace for a signing and discussion of his book Big Cat: Story of Johnny Mize ---- Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a professional player at seventeen, embarking on an extended…
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SABR Series: Author Doug Gladstone
This painstakingly researched book by Douglas J. Gladstone examines the plight of 874 Major League Baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979, all with brief trials in the majors, careers figuratively “just long enough to drink a cup of coffee.” Since 1980, Major League Baseball players have needed one day of service credit for health benefits and 43 days of service credit to be eligible for a retirement allowance, but those former ballplayers who played during the 1947-1979 seasons…
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