Speaking of Shibe Park

Lecture by Dr. Jerrold Casway

Wednesday, July 14 at 7 p.m.

Dr. Jerrold Casway is a Professor of History and the Chairman of the Social Sciences/Teacher Education Division at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. During his lecture, he will be discussing the history and background of Shibe Park (Connie Mack Stadium). It was Major League Baseball’s first modern, steel, and concrete ballpark and housed both the Athletics (1909-1954) and the Phillies (1938-1971) baseball teams.

Casway actively researches and writes about Irish History and culture. In April of 2008, he was featured in the Top 100 Irish America’s Finest Writers & Media section of Irish America Magazine. To view the article, visit http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/
Dr. Casway recently delivered a talk at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, entitled Baseball’s Hibernian Collaboration, Ted Sullivan and Charlie Comiskey.

Jerry also contributed four chapters to Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth-Century, was featured in the History Channel piece “God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland, and is currently working on a book on the culture and ethnicity of 19th-century baseball.

Dr. Jerrold Casway

Shibe Park (Connie Mack Stadium)
Home to the Athletics (1909-1954) and Phillies (1938-1971)