Autumn is full of baseball tales\, like th e first modern World&rsquo\;s Series\, as it was called\, full of talk of players betting openly on the games and labor issues with the owners. The fall also brought the biggest base-running in the sport&rsquo\;s history a nd the first of what is now hundreds of Dominican ballplayers. Learn more about these stories and others from Phil Coffin\, the author of &ldquo\;A Baseball Book of Days: Thirty-One Moments That Transformed the Game.&rdquo \;
\nPhil Coffin\, a longtime New York Times editor who lives in Poi nt Pleasant Beach\, is the author of two books of unconventional baseball history: &ldquo\;A Baseball Book of Days: Thirty-One Moments That Transfor med the Game&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;When Baseball Was Still Topps: Portraits of the Game in 1959\, Card by Card.&rdquo\; He has been a member of the So ciety for American Baseball Research since 1994.
\n\nThis pro gram is sponsored by The Friends of the Uppers Shore Branch.
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