George Kirsch: Six Guys from Hackensack: Coming of Age in the Real New Jersey

George B. Kirsch is a professor of history at Manhattan College and a sports historian who has written and edited eleven books. His best known works are Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72; Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War; and Golf in America. He has served as a consultant for Major League Baseball and for Ken Burns’ PBS series, Baseball. He has also been a guest speaker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY and the Museum of the United States Golf Association in Far Hills, NJ. A story of friendship and a social history of a New Jersey suburb in the ‘50s and‘60s, this new memoir provides a long overdue reality check for readers whose ideas about New Jersey come from The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, or Jersey Shore.