Wellington Titus, a house mover of renown and an amateur baseball player from Marshall’s Corner, N.J., didn’t invent the portable baseball batting cage, but he made it workable. And his patented version soon spread to major league ballparks, where it remains a staple. Coincidentally, the pioneer of the permanent outdoor batting cage was also from New Jersey, but he was best known for football: Amos Alonzo Stagg. Phil Coffin, an author from the Jersey Shore, tells the stories of how these Jersey boys came up with their ideas, plus other tales of New Jersey and baseball.

Presenter Biography:

Phil Coffin, a longtime editor at The New York Times and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research since 1994, is the author of two books of unconventional baseball history: “A Baseball Book of Days: Thirty-One Moments That Transformed the Game” and “When Baseball Was Still Topps: Portraits of the Game in 1959, Card by Card.” He is working on a third book, about innovations and innovators in baseball.

Learn about Wellington Titus and the Hopewell Valley's contribution to baseball!

June 17 ~ 7pm

To register to attend in person at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church
https://redlibrary.org/events/speaker-series-wellington-titus-and-new-jerseys-baseball-innovators/
or on Zoom
https://www.hopewellvalleyhistory.org/event-details/wellington-titus-njs-baseball-innovators/form

Co-sponsored by the Hopewell Public Library, The HVHS, and the Hopewell Museum.