{"id":788,"date":"2012-09-30T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2012-10-02T05:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T09:05:31","slug":"renowned-author-joshua-prager-to-speak-at-our-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"RENOWNED AUTHOR JOSHUA PRAGER TO SPEAK AT OUR FIRST MEETING!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/resources2.deepdiscount.com\/resources\/deepdiscount\/images\/products\/processed\/950\/9780375713071.zoom.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are proud to announce that the first New York Giants Preservation Society meeting will take place at 6:30PMon Thursday, October 25, at the <strong><em>Bergino Baseball Clubhouse<\/em><\/strong>, located at the landmark Cast Iron Building, 67 East 11<sup>th<\/sup> Street, in downtown Manhattan. Our inaugural speaker will be the esteemed author, Joshua Prager. Josh is a prolific writer who is in the final stages of having his new book published, one which talks about his life.\u00a0 Because the meeting takes place in October, Josh will be discussing this and his incredible story about the 1951 Giants, entitled <strong><em>THE ECHOING GREEN, The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0This is truly an unbelievable story that still generates debates, six years after the initial pressing of the book.\u00a0 We are honored that Josh is taking the time out of his busy schedule to join us.\u00a0 Bring your book down and have it signed if you like!! Donuts will be served.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank CEO and owner Jay Goldberg for letting us use his beautiful facility.\u00a0 Jay has some wonderful memorabilia to view and purchase.\u00a0 Jay will also be doing a Podcast of the event.\u00a0 This is an event any NY Giants fan or baseball fan for that matter needs to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Please RSVP as soon as you can so we have an idea of how many people might be attending.\u00a0 Seating is on a first come first serve basis.\u00a0 Feel free to come early to browse the \u201cClubhouse\u201d and chat with fellow members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gary Mintz &amp; Steve Rothschild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that the first New York Giants Preservation Society meeting will take place at 6:30PMon Thursday, October 25, at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, located at the landmark Cast Iron Building, 67 East 11th Street, in downtown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=788\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}