Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

In 1973 and 1974 (The Championship Years) Don Newbery recorded his talks with Oriole players about playing the game of baseball, and playing their positions. They talked in the Orioles’ dugout at the Memorial Stadium just before the games. You will hear all the stadium background noise, as it was at that time --- the fans shouting, the organ playing…..

Don Newbery is a former Athletic Director and Baseball & Basketball Coach at the University of Baltimore. His is also a former Baseball & Basketball Coach at the New York University, and a former sportscaster in Washington DC. Don was inducted into the Elisabeth New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame May 4, 2006.

A child's mysterious death, a young woman's romantic obsession, and a father's long-hidden secret converge in the gripping plot of Life Sentences, Laura Lippman's new novel. In this blazing tale of twisting suspense, Lippman raises difficult, illuminating questions about the nature of memory and truth.

Laura Lippman is the author of 10 Tess Monaghan novels, plus four other suspense novels, a collection of short stories, and a mystery anthology. This "book launch" celebration is cosponsored with Mystery Loves Company bookstore.

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Recorded On: Saturday, January 24, 2009

Michael Bart's parents, Leizer and Zenia, were Lithuanian Holocaust survivors. It was not until after their death that their son began to piece together their history of love, struggle, resistance and survival.

Michale Bart spent 10 years researching his parents' past. In Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance, Bart tell the story of their romance in the Vilna ghetto and the heroics of the ghetto resistance and partisan fighters.

Recorded On: Thursday, October 16, 2008

In Becoming Billie Holiday, Carole Boston Weatherford's poems trace the singer's journey from B-girl to jazz royalty.  Her first book for teens, it is illustrated with cinematic, sepia-toned art by Floyd Cooper. Weatherford will also talk about her recent children's book, I, Matthew Henson. 

Carole Boston Weatherford was born and raised in Baltimore. She has written many award-winning books for young readers. She teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

Recorded On: Saturday, February 7, 2009