Gelf Magazine presents: “Baseball’s Almost Best”

October 3, 2012

Gelf’s Varsity Letters, New York’s sports reading series, returns on Thursday, Oct. 4, with a night devoted to players who won’t make it to Cooperstown unless they buy a bus ticket. They get their due in the new digital collection of essays, The Hall of Nearly Great. And they’ll get their due at Varsity Letters, featuring editor Marc Normandin, who also wrote the essays on Ray Lankford and Bret Saberhagen. Also appearing: Previous Varsity Letters speakers Will Leitch and Emma Span, who wrote about Darrell Porter and Lenny Dykstra, respectively, and who both also contribute to the new sports website Sports on Earth. They’ll be joined by occasional Gelf contributors David Roth, who is an editor off the Classical and wrote about Keith Hernandez; and Craig Fehrman, who contributes to Deadspin and wrote about Eric Davis.

The program is free and will be held at The Gallery at LPR, 158 Bleeker Street in Manhattan’s West Village.  Doors open at 7:00. Event starts at 7:30.

Attendees must be 21 or older, as per LPR rules. (Email michael@gelfmagazine.com if you are under 21 and would like to attend the events. The farther in advance, the better; no guarantees.)

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