In-Person

Baseball Book Club: Big Fella

Monday, May 11, 2026 | 12:00pm

May 11

Anyone who's been to Opening Day in Cincinnati knows no one does baseball better than the Queen City.

We're going to read our way through the season with Cincinnati Reds historian Greg Rhodes and Greg Gajus, author of Baseball Revolutionaries: How The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Rocked The Country and Made Baseball Famous.

Free to members; registration required.

To sign up for the whole series after Opening Day, email hillary@mercantilelibrary.com

Meeting dates and reading list:

March 30: The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, Lawrence Ritter
May 11: Big Fella: Babe Ruth and The World He Created, Jane Leavy
June 29: I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story, Lonnie Wheeler
August 10: The Long Season, Jim Brosnan
October 5: The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented and Reinvented Baseball, John W. Miller