Virtual Talk: Baseball and the Media: The Transition from Radio to Television

The Gibson House is pleased to announce the latest in its baseball-history series. Join us for a lively discussion filled with stories about the "good old days" of baseball, from World War II to the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" of 1967, with an emphasis on how the game transitioned from radio to TV.

Baseball historian Donna Halper will lead the discussion, highlighting key, and mostly local, baseball personalities past and present, including Jim Britt, Curt Gowdy, Ned Martin, and Joe Castiglione. She will also discuss sports-talk radio, and how the rise of the Internet and social media changed the business of baseball forever.

Donna Halper, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. A former broadcaster, she is also the author of six books and has written numerous biographical sketches about baseball history for the Society for American Baseball Research.

Moderating the event will be Bob Goodof, longtime baseball-history program sponsor and former Gibson House board member and treasurer.

About the Gibson House Museum

The Gibson House is a historic house museum located in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. Now a National Historic Landmark, the home served as residence to three generations of Gibson family members and their household staff between 1859 and 1954. The Museum’s four floors of period rooms, including the original kitchen, are a time capsule of domestic life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Visitors experience the house through guided tours that interpret class and culture through the stories and objects of the people who lived and worked there.

The Gibson House Museum is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the Massachusetts State Register of Historic Places.

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