Bergino Baseball Clubhouse
Cast Iron Building
67 East 11th St.
Thursday, August 16, free with RSVP, 7:00
212-226-7150
www.bergino.com
us.penguingroup.com
“Gil Hodges smiled, which was a big deal.” So begins Tom Clavin and Danny Peary’s latest baseball biography, Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend (Penguin, August 7, 2012, $26.95), the follow-up to their 2010 tome, Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero. Clavin and Peary delve into the life and times of the Indiana-born Hodges, the beloved eight-time All-Star who played first base on the Brooklyn Dodgers’ championship Boys of Summer team and later went on to manage the Amazin’ Mets in 1969. In more recent years, the late Hodges, who died in 1972 just short of his forty-eighth birthday, has been the subject of heated debate over whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame. Peary will discuss that and more when he talks about the book on August 16 at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in the Cast Iron Building on East Eleventh St. For our interview with Peary about his Maris book, go here.