Past Events

Meet Brandon Hyde at the Babe Ruth Museum! 2023 AL Manager of the Year, Brandon Hyde will be signing autographs from 10-12PM on Saturday, August 17th. PRICING ---- Basic Items (cards, flats, programs) $50 ---- Premium Items (jerseys, balls, game used items, bobbleheads) $60 ---- Inscriptions $15 Signing brought to you by Sign of the Hobby Autographs. For questions or pre-payment contact Ross at ross@signofthehobby.com

This is the first book-length biography of Ned Hanlon, a Hall of Famer but yet an underappreciated figure in baseball history. As a first generation Irish-American, Ned Hanlon left behind a childhood in the cotton mills to become a star player in the major leagues and the famous manager of the colorful 1890s Baltimore Orioles. He traveled the world on an all-star team and was a key member of the first attempt by baseball players to unionize, which led to…

In 1924, Washington Senators team president Clark Griffith hired Bucky Harris, his twenty-seven-year-old second baseman, to manage the Senators, a decision called “Griffith’s folly.” Yet the Senators, inspired by their fiery new leader, found themselves in first place heading into the homestretch. The question remained: with an untested manager and an aging star pitcher, would they be able to hold on for the first world championship in team history?

The original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago’s South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein’s model-T. But with Saperstein’s savvy and the players’ skills, the Globetrotters would become a worldwide sensation. Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports is the fascinating biography of Saperstein, a five-foot-three promoter who made an amazing impact in a sport where height…

This will be a virtual program, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-uuqj0tHtU1pOm15hWW0rWoM6Gv4h24 A $15 donation is encouraged, donate at baberuthmuseum.org/donate A former archaeologist with a Ph.d from Brown University, Robert K. Fitts left academics behind to follow his passion - Japanese baseball. An award-winning author and speaker, his articles have appeared numerous journals, magazines, and websites. He is also the author of ten books on Japanese baseball and Japanese baseball cards. Fitts is the founder of SABR’s Asian Baseball Committee and a recipient…

Dr. John J. Burbridge Jr. is currently Professor Emeritus at Elon University where he was both a dean and professor. He is also an adjunct at York College of Pennsylvania. While at Elon he introduced and taught Baseball and Statistics. He has authored several publications and also presented at SABR Conventions, NINE and the Seymour meetings. He is a lifelong New York Giants baseball fan. The greatest Giants-Dodgers game he attended was a 1-0 Giants’ victory in Jersey City in…

Tim Newby is a writer and educator. He is the author of three books, The Original Louisville Slugger: The Life and Forgotten Times of Baseball Legend Pete Browning (2024), Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival (2019), and Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & its Legacy (2015). The Original Louisville Slugger was a Finalist for the prestigious CASEY award, given to the book that provides the greatest contribution to baseball literature that year. In 2016 Bluegrass in Baltimore was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Association for…

Join author Melissa Ludtke for a virtual session on Thursday, March 20th from 7PM-8PM. MELISSA LUDTKE is the author of Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside, which tells the story of her much-publicized federal court fight that in 1978 gave female writers the equal access they needed to interview ball players in baseball locker rooms, as men had done for decades. She was a reporter for Sports Illustrated, a correspondent for Time and editor of Nieman Reports…