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Monday, June 10, 2019

'69 METS STAR & BEST SELLING AUTHOR ART SHAMSKY & ESPN'S BOB RYAN AT MORVEN MUSEUM JUNE 13

Talking Baseball
features ‘69 NY Mets’ star Art Shamsky, “Sports Reporters” celebrity journalist Bob Ryan, and noted New Jersey sportswriter Bill Glovin

WHEN: Thursday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton
TICKETS: $20 for the public; $15 for Friends of Morven. 
Copies of Mr. Shamsky’s After the Miracle will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture.
Private reception with speakers set for $100 ticket price including wine, baseball themed refreshments, companion book, and priority lecture seating is at 5:45 p.m. and supports the Museum’s Education programs

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS
For additional information and to reserve tickets, you may also contact Morven’s Curator of Education and Public Programs at 609.924.8144 ext. 106 or dlampertrudman@morven.org

ESPN “Sports Reporters” Bob Ryan and ‘69 New York Mets star and bestselling author Art Shamsky in conversation with New Jersey sports journalist Bill Glovin is the “leadoff” program for Morven Museum & Garden’s newest exhibition New Jersey Baseball: From the Cradle to the Major Leagues 1855–1915.

“Morven is thrilled to be hosting what is shaping up to be a hot ticket for baseball fans,” Executive Director Jill Barry said recently.

In addition to the 7:30 p.m. public lecture with q&a, tickets to a special private reception with the speakers in Morven’s museum galleries starting at 5:45 p.m are available. This $100 per person event supports Morven’s Education programs and includes wine, baseball themed refreshments, priority seating at the 7:30 p.m. lecture, and a copy of the exhibition’s companion book, A Cradle of the National Pastime: New Jersey Baseball, 1855-1880 by baseball historian John Zinn.

The June 13 program is sponsored by Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP.

New Jersey Baseball: From the Cradle to the Major Leagues 1855–1915 is on view from June 7 through October 27, 2019 and is sponsored by The New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, The Hess Foundation, Robert N. Wilson and Michele Plante, Pheasant Hill Foundation, Liza and Schuyler Morehouse, The Muhlhauser Gift Fund, Lisa and Michael Ullmann, Carolyn and John Healey, and Investors Foundation.

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ,  is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  For additional information and associated programming visit https://www.morven.org/upcoming-events