{"id":436,"date":"2019-12-10T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matty.org\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2020-02-27T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:44:56","slug":"an-evening-with-christy-mathewson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matty.org\/an-evening-with-christy-mathewson\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Christy Mathewson"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”105″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”center” top_padding=”130″ bottom_padding=”170″ id=”inner_about” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”col_innerabout” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WDVR-FM NJ Public Radio<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;\"><i><b>Transcript \u2014 LAZY MONDAY AFTERNOON \u2014 September 9, 1996<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%;\">MATTY<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">An Evening With Christy Mathewson<a name=\"BM_1_\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lamb\u2019s Theatre<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>130 West 44<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Street<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whether you are a baseball fan or not, Eddie Frierson\u2019s play, “MATTY: An Evening With Christy Mathewson,” is a superb theatrical experience at the Lamb\u2019s Theatre (130 West 44<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in Manhattan).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Written and performed by Mr. Frierson, “MATTY” tells a tale of baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame star Christy Mathewson at a time when baseball was in its infancy. But “MATTY” is more than a play about baseball, it is about a man whose presence transformed a ruffian dominated sport into the national pastime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mathewson was a country boy who went on to college at Bucknell University before starting his brilliant pitching career with the New York Giants. Women began flocking to the Giants\u2019 games to watch “the college boy” pitch. He was the toast of New York and the Country, setting records for career victories and most games won in a season. He was also a man of moral convictions \u2014 never pitching on a Sunday because of a promise to his mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After his years with the Giants, Mathewson briefly played with and managed the Cincinnati Reds, then served in France in World War I, where he was the victim of a gas attack. He died of tuberculosis in 1925 and was one of the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame when it was established in 1936. Beyond baseball he was also a writer of novels and stories for boys, an endorser of products, an author on Broadway and an actor in Vaudeville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Author and star Eddie Frierson, who once played baseball for UCLA, resembles Mathewson and gives a winning narrative performance. He also portrays other characters at the time including Mathewson\u2019s fiery baseball manager, John McGraw, “Jinx Killer” Charley Faust, evil first baseman Hal Chase and many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Directed by Kerrigan Mahan, “MATTY” is solid and superior theatre even for someone who doesn\u2019t know a double play from a double steal. “MATTY” hits a home run!<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”105″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”center” top_padding=”130″ bottom_padding=”170″ id=”inner_about” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”col_innerabout” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matty.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}