{"id":2616,"date":"2020-01-11T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2020-01-11T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:56:06","slug":"the-2nd-nygps-meeting-of-2020-with-stew-thornley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"THE 2ND NYGPS MEETING OF 2020 WITH STEW THORNLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE 2ND NYGPS MEETING OF 2020 WITH STEW THORNLEY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2nd NYGPS Meeting of 2020 will take place on Thursday, January 23rd, at 5:30PM, at Finnerty\u2019s. Famed Polo Grounds historian and author Stew Thornley will be our guest speaker. Stew will be talking about his lasts book on the PG\u2019s, The Polo Grounds: Essays and Memories of New York City&#8217;s Historic Ballpark, 1880-1963. He previously authored Land of the Giants: New York&#8217;s Polo Grounds. This looks to be a great event. Here are the synopsis&#8217; on both books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/bo\u2026\/show\/436209.Land_of_the_Giants\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-amazon-kindle wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Polo Grounds: Essays and Memories of New York City&#039;s Historic Ballpark, 1880-1963 (McFarland Historic Ballparks, 5)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"584\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_6cFv8E0y7vbpuk&#038;asin=0786478977&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please bring copies of the books and Stew will gladly autograph them for you if you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please RSVP me ASAP if you plan on attending. The meeting is only 2 weeks away! Be well, Gary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Finnerty\u2019s gives us the use of its backroom for the event. For your enjoyment, libations will be available at the Happy Hour rate until 8PM. Drinks specials are:<br>$5 draft beers<br>$6 mixed well cocktails<br>$7 glasses of wine<br>Please RSVP ASAP to me. All the best, Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 2ND NYGPS MEETING OF 2020 WITH STEW THORNLEY The 2nd NYGPS Meeting of 2020 will take place on Thursday, January 23rd, at 5:30PM, at Finnerty\u2019s. Famed Polo Grounds historian and author Stew Thornley will be our guest speaker. Stew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2616","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\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}