Baseball
Local historian Glenn Cashion will present a history of Baseball in Freehold on Tuesday, June 27 at 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Middletown Township Historical Society, Cashion’s program is available both in person at the Middletown Library as well as online.
The library, which is the regular meeting place for the Middletown Historical Society is on New Monmouth Rd., Middletown.
Registration for the online presentation is available at MiddletownNJHistory.org.
Cashion, a member of the Monmouth County Historical Commission, shares some of the stories from his book, Baseball is in My DNA, including stories about Mr. Baseball of Freehold, David Dem Cashion, the author’s brother. Photographs, newspaper articles and players’ recollections will span 100 years of the baseball stronghold in New Jersey, Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County.
A graduate of Brown University, and active with the university’s Alumni association Cashion, the author is also active with the Marine Corps League and other historical organizations in addition to the Commission. He is retired after a 40-year career in senior leadership positions in the United States and globally, with several different telecommunications companies.
The program is made possible in part by the Monmouth County Historical Commission without funding from the New Jersey historical Commission
