Learn the ins and ‘outs’ of early baseball with talk, trolley tour at Green-Wood
Baseball historian teams up with Green-Wood’s historian to celebrate game’s earliest legends
Baseball historian and author Thomas W. Gilbert will visit Green-Wood Cemetery’s Historic Chapel on Sept. 26 to celebrate his newly published book “Playing First: Early Baseball Lives at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.”
Gilbert is an expert in baseball’s 19th-century origins in New York City and Brooklyn, and an astounding number of early baseball innovators and players are interred at Green-Wood. “Playing First” is the culmination of Gilbert’s extensive research into the little-known and interconnected professional, political and military lives of these baseball pioneers.
Gilbert will reveal many of the book’s fascinating stories, including the truth about what actually killed famed baseball martyr and permanent Green-Wood resident James Creighton, and how a feud between baseball and cricket in early America changed Creighton’s legacy forever.