April 10, 2005
1:00pm
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Lee Auditorium
St. Louis, Missouri
“MATTY” was performed on Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 1:00pm Main Auditorium at the Missouri Historical Society’s Missouri History Museum in St. Louis. The performance was originally scheduled to be presented in the in open area of the Museum’s Grand Hall in the Emerson Center but at the last second the Lee Auditorium was secured for the show and allowed for the full theatricality of the event!
Christy Mathewson had his greatest luck against the St. Louis ball club (24 consecutive victories!) and it was fun to visit the site where the Giants first met up with their 1911 mascot, Charley Faust. For more information on this WONDERFUL museum (free to the public) please contact the Missouri Historical Society for more — (314)454-3150 or click the above icon to go to the Society’s Website.
Temecula, California
June 11, 2005
St. Jeanne de Lestonnac
32650 Avenida Lestonnac
Temecula, CA 92591
This performance was a benefit for the Temecula Preparatory School Baseball Program.
The performance curtain was an early 6:00pm in the campus auditorium.
Directions From I-15 in Temecula: Exit Rancho California Road, go east off of the freeway and turn right onto Butterfield Stage Left onto Avenida Lestonnac. For more information call Temecula Preparatory School at 951-926-6776 or e-mail: Jacob Kruger.
June 19-25, 2005
VALENCIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
25718 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA, 91355
Valencia, California
MATTY returned for two encore performances at Valencia United Methodist Church.
Sunday, Fathers’ Day, June 19 and Saturday, June 25
Curtain times:
Sunday, June 23 at 4:00 p.m.
(Free Bar-B-Que Followed!)
Saturday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m.
* Valencia United Methodist Church is located at 25718 McBean Parkway, Valencia, California. You may phone the Church for information on services, outreach, other programs and directions — or feel free to ask them to bring MATTY back for a return run! Phone the Church offices at 661-255-1301 or by fax at 661-255-0119. You may also e-mail umcv@umcv.org. These performances were free to the public courtesy of VUMC but you are encouraged to give as you wish to benefit the Church’s Youth Programs or any of the Church Ministries.
July 21 & 23, 2005
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005
For the third time Eddie Frierson traveled as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s touring exhibit, BASEBALL AS AMERICA! “MATTY” rolled in to Texas for the first time since the old spring training days at Marlin Springs to become a ‘living exhibit’ with this wonderful, special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston! Performances were 6:30p.m. on Thursday evening, July 21st and at 2p.m. on Saturday, July 23. It was wonderful to see all the MATTY fans in the Lone Star State! For more information and to ask MFAH to bring the show back again call the Museum directly at 713-639-7300.
November 5, 2005
BENEFIT FOR H.I.S. HOUSE
Valencia High School Auditorium
500 N. Bradford Avenue
Placentia, California
This special performance was a benefit H.I.S. HOUSE in the Placentia, California area (near Anaheim). Curtain was 7:30pm for the performance at Valenica High School’s Auditorium in Placentia but the fun started at 6:45pm with an auction that garnered over $1700 for a great cause! For more information about H.I.S. HOUSE call (714)993-5774.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2005
Matty’s Day at The Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St
Oakland, CA 94607
A Giant visits Oakland
Whatever their other shortcomings, Giants fans are right to believe their team has an illustrious history. Take Christy “Big Six” Mathewson, the right-handed NY Giants pitcher (1900-1916) whose fadeaway curve helped him achieve 372 lifetime wins (for the Giants, 373 overall), including three shutout games in the 1905 World Series against the then Philadelphia A’s. Actor Eddie Frierson remembers Matty, too, and this Sunday (2-4:30 p.m.) at the Oakland Museum of California, Frierson impersonates him as part of the “Baseball as America” exhibition in his universally-acclaimed one man play, MATTY.