Author Visit: Red Sox Photography

Tuesday, November 6: Author Mike Shalin and Steve Babineau will discuss their new book The Hometown Team: Four Decades of Boston Red Sox Photography. For Red Sox fans eager to relive the glory days of their favorite players, The Hometown Team enables them to do just that, through the lens of longtime photographer Steve Babineau. From star and support players, to members of the grounds crew, Red Sox staff, alumni, and some opposing players, this book features Fenway's most memorable characters from the past forty years, with behind-the-scenes images of the ballpark during that time as well.

Mike Shalin is a veteran of 35 years in sports journalism. The 1976 graduate of Wichita State University started with the wire services in New York in the 70s, moved to the New York Post from 1980-82 and then spent 22 years at the Boston Herald, covering the Red Sox for 12 years and then Boston College football and basketball before leaving the newspaper in 2005. He is now a freelancer in the Boston area, with varied duties including work as an official scorer at Fenway Park. Shalin, a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 1989, co-authored a book entitled “Out By A Step, The 100 Best Players Not in the Baseball Hall of Fame and is the author of the 2011 release “Donnie Baseball, The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly (Triumph). He also co-penned Gilles Villemure’s Tales From The Rangers Locker Room, as well as several books for young readers and has worked in radio and television. Shalin resides in Easton, Ma.

Steve Babineau has spent forty-four years photographing Boston-area teams, including the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Manchester Monarchs, and Worcester Sharks. "Babs" has published his photographs in Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs and numerous magazines, yearbooks, promotional materials, and online. He was a staff photographer for Fleer baseball card company for fourteen years (1980-1994).

Books will be for sale.

PARKING: There is ample library event parking in the nearby Isham Garage. Please bypass the garage kiosks and come directly to the Noah Webster Library Meeting Room, 20 South Main Street, where you may validate your parking with your license plate number.