# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Speaker Series: Wellington Titus and New Jersey's Baseball Innovators!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: 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.

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

Registration requested. Check out Redlibrary.org for registration details.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hopewell/speaker-series-wellington-titus-and-new-jerseys-baseball-innovators/200030183825005
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Hopewell
- **state**: NJ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Hopewell Presbyterian Church
- **lat**: 40.386732
- **long**: -74.766906
- **full address**: Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad St, Hopewell, NJ 08525-1921, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Speaker Series: Wellington Titus and New Jersey's Baseball Innovators! being held?
  - **A:** Speaker Series: Wellington Titus and New Jersey's Baseball Innovators! takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W Broad St, Hopewell, NJ 08525-1921, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Speaker Series: Wellington Titus and New Jersey's Baseball Innovators!?
  - **A:** Speaker Series: Wellington Titus and New Jersey's Baseball Innovators! is organized by Hopewell Public Library NJ.

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