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Monday, July 28, 2008
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series Proudly Presents:
Robin Wright
National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Washington Post
Author of and Speaking on: "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East"
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series Proudly Presents:
Lou Gorman
The Legendary Former Red Sox General Manager
Author of and Speaking on:"High and Inside: My Life in the Front Office of Baseball"
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Monday, July 28, 2008
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series Proudly Presents:
Robin Wright – National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Washington Post
Author of and Speaking on: "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East"
12-Noon Luncheon
Absolut Clubhouse at Fenway Park (enter off Brookline Avenue)
Red Sox Nation & BoSox Members, $50
Non-Members, $60
To register for this event please click here.
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Robin Wright – Biographical Brief
 Robin Wright has reported from more than a 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and others.
Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She now covers U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post.
Among several awards, Wright received the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for coverage of African wars. She was named journalist of the year by the American Academy of Diplomacy, and won the National Press Club Award and the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting. Wright has also been the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.
As an author, Ms. Wright has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. She lectures extensively around the United States and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS programs, including “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” “Nightline,” the “Newshour,” “Frontline,” and "Larry King Live.’
Among her books, "The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran" was selected as one of the 25 most memorable books of the year 2000. She is also the author of "Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam," "Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World," and "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade." |
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Friday, September 12, 2008
The Great Fenway Park Writers Series Proudly Presents:
Lou Gorman – The Legendary Former Red Sox General Manager
Author of and Speaking on: "High and Inside: My Life in the Front Office of Baseball"
12-Noon Luncheon
Absolut Clubhouse at Fenway Park (enter off Brookline Avenue)
Red Sox Nation & BoSox Members, $55
Non-Members, $65
To register for this event please click here. |
Lou Gorman – Biographical Brief
James G. "Lou" Gorman is a former general manager of the Boston Red Sox. He served in this position from 1984 to 1993. After that, he became an executive consultant for public affairs with an emphasis on community projects. He also is the coordinator of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, to which he was inducted in 2002. He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
A native of South Providence, Rhode Island, Gorman grew up a Red Sox fan. At the high school level, he was an excellent athlete, but was cut from the minors. After his professional baseball career stalled, Gorman enrolled in Stonehill College for his bachelor`s degree and Bridgewater State College for his master`s. After college, he joined the United States Navy and served more than eight years in the armed forces, including two tours in Korea.
He started in baseball in 1961 with the San Francisco Giants, and worked in management and player development capacities for the Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Mets. He was the first farm system director in the history of the Royals, and the first-ever general manager of the Mariners when they entered the American League in 1977. He left Seattle to become vice president, player personnel of the Mets in 1980, where Gorman helped lay the foundation for the Mets` 1986 World Series championship - achieved at the expense of his next team, the Red Sox.
In 1984, Gorman was offered a job as Vice President and General Manager for the team he rooted for his entire life, and took it. When he arrived, the team already had players like Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Dwight Evans and Bob Stanley, stars that would form the nucleus of the talented Red Sox teams of the late 1980s. However, it was Gorman`s acquisitions of Dave Henderson and Spike Owen that helped lead the Red Sox to the 1986 World Series.
Though the team made it back to the playoffs in 1988 and 1990, they never got any closer to a championship than in his first year. Though he made several key trades, such as picking up Nick Esasky and Rob Murphy from Cincinnati and getting all-time saves leader Lee Smith.
Lou Gorman is greatly respected and admired throughout Red Sox Nation. |
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