{"id":2306,"date":"2016-03-28T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:02:04","slug":"carl-hubbell-day-april-24-haworth-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"CARL HUBBELL DAY: APRIL 24, HAWORTH, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHAWORTH TO CELEBRATE \u201cCARL OWEN HUBBELL DAY\u201d
\nBASEBALL HALL OF FAMER AND FORMER RESIDENT
\nTwo of our members to speak, Peter Laskowich & Jerry Liebowitz!!
\nBaseball Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell was called the \u201cMeal Ticket\u201d for the New York Giants during the 1930s, or sometimes \u201cKing Carl.\u201d He helped take the Giants to three World Series. In the 1934 All Star Game he struck out five future Hall of Famers in a row, starting with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. He was the National League\u2019s Most Valuable Player in 1933 and 1936. And from 1946 through 1950, he and his family lived in the small Bergen County town of Haworth, New Jersey (at the time he was developing the Giants farm system).
\nCarl\u2019s old team, now the San Francisco Giants, recently honored his time in Haworth with a $500 contribution to the Haworth Library\u2019s building fund\u2014enough to memorialize the pitcher\u2019s name on the library\u2019s Donor Wall. Up until that donation, probably only the town historian and the people who live in the Hubbells\u2019 former home knew of his time here. While everyone in town knows that actress Brooke Shields once lived here, and some may know that General Henry Robert, who wrote \u201cRobert\u2019s Rules of Order,\u201d had a Victorian house on Sunset, the Giants\u2019 donation was a big surprise to local folks who had no idea that the town had been home to a resident truly in a \u201cleague of his own,\u201d a man famous for what was called a \u201cbaffling\u201d and \u201cdevastating\u201d screwball. The Giants\u2019 donation created so much local interest that the Friends of the Haworth Library decided to celebrate Hubbell\u2019s legacy and residency with a special day.
\nTo that end, the Haworth Borough Council has passed a resolution officially making Sunday, April 24, \u201cCarl Owen Hubbell Day.\u201d At 1:30 PM the Hubbell family home, 474 Haworth Ave., will be open to see, and a video there will showcase Hubbell\u2019s baseball career. At 2:30 at the Haworth Library, 300 Haworth Ave., New York baseball historian Peter Laskowich will talk about the place of the Giants, and Hubbell, in baseball history, and Jerry Liebowitz, with the New York Giants Preservation Society, will show off his collection of Hubbell and Giants photographs and memorabilia. Additional photos have been sent by Carl Hubbell\u2019s two sons, Carl, Jr., and James, who now live in the Midwest. Finally, at 4 PM, when the speakers are finished, there will be a showing of the 1953 movie Carl made with Edward G. Robinson and Vera-Ellen, \u201cBig Leaguer\u201d (it was the first movie directed by Robert Aldrich, who went on to make \u201cWhatever Happened to Baby Jane\u201d and \u201cThe Dirty Dozen\u201d). Peanuts and Cracker Jacks will be served.
\nFor more information on \u201cCarl Owen Hubbell Day,\u201d contact Beth Potter, president of the Friends of the Haworth Library, at 201-384-1020 (or Beth\u2019s cell, 201-723-6289).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAWORTH TO CELEBRATE \u201cCARL OWEN HUBBELL DAY\u201d BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER AND FORMER RESIDENT Two of our members to speak, Peter Laskowich & Jerry Liebowitz!! Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell was called the \u201cMeal Ticket\u201d for the New York … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}