Events & Promotions

May 29

4:30PM-6:00PM – Williams Family Champions Gallery*

6:15PM-7:15PM – Hall of Fame Shop in the First Star Fan Zone**

Autographs - $30 each; Inscriptions - $15 each

Signing Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Saturday, May 25

• 5:00PM-6:00PM in the Reds Hall of Fame
• 6:00PM-7:00PM at the Hall of Fame Shop in the First Star Fan Zone*

Signing Joe Nuxhall: The Old Lefthander & Me: My Conversations with Joe Nuxhall About the Reds, Baseball & Broadcasting

Sunday, June 9 – 12:00PM – 1:00PM

Beloved Cincinnati Reds pitcher and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall was the youngest player in Major League history. He started pitching for the Reds before he could get a driver's license. He was just 15. John Kiesewetter, longtime Cincinnati TV/media reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Public Radio NPR affiliate WVXU-FM, and a lifelong Reds fan, become friends with his baseball hero while "The Old Lefthander" was doing Reds broadcasts with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman. Kiesewetter's book is packed with behind-the-scenes stories of the epic pranks played by Brennaman and Nuxhall, the games they called that made baseball history, and the loveable, irrepressible personality of "Hamilton Joe" Nuxhall, who was the face and voice of the Reds for decades. Johnny Bench, Tom Browning, Jeff Brantley, Lou Piniella, Pete Rose, Marge Schott, Ted Kluszewski, Al Michaels and other legendary Reds personalities are all in the lineup for Kiesewetter's fascinating, humorous and entertaining book. Part of the proceeds from the book benefit the Nuxhall Foundation.

Signing and discussing Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero

Sunday, June 23 – 12:00PM-1:00PM

Waite “Schoolboy” Hoyt’s improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five-dollar bonus. After nearly having both his hands amputated and cavorting with men twice his age in the hardscrabble Minor Leagues, he somehow ended up the best pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1920s.

Based on a trove of Hoyt’s writings and interview transcripts, Tim Manners has reanimated the baseball legend’s untold story, entirely in Hoyt’s own words. He writes at length about the art of pitching and how the game and its players changed—and didn’t—over his lifetime. After retiring from baseball at thirty-eight and coming to terms with his alcoholism, Hoyt found some happiness as a family man and a beloved, pioneering Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster with a Websterian vocabulary spiked with a Brooklyn accent.

When Hoyt died in 1984 his foremost legacy may have been as a raconteur who punctuated his life story with awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping anecdotes. In Schoolboy he never flinches from an unsparing account of his remarkable and paradoxical eighty-four-year odyssey.

Signing Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights Volume 2: A Collection of Unforgettable Reds Stories

Sunday, July 7 – 12:00PM – 1:00PM

A $10,000 payroll? Pete Rose and Andy Warhol? A 32-day road trip? Ninth graders on the mound? An amphibious pitcher? Missing trophies?
The stories are endless and fascinating, and told here by Greg Rhodes, Reds Team Historian, in this collection of highlights from his long-running Hall of Fame segment heard on the Reds Radio Network.

Rhodes, the founding director of the Reds Hall of Fame, has been collecting, writing, and recording Reds stories for over 30 years, and he has assembled his favorites here in this book.

Signing Cincinnati Sports Chronicle Volumes 1 and 2

Saturday, August 3 – 6:00PM – 7:00PM

Cincinnati Sports Chronicle - Volume 1 taps into Cincinnati's formative years. The era was dominated by the Cincinnati Reds as they were the first club to take a permanent foothold in the city. The Reds however were far from the only baseball club to make their indelible mark. From the 1869 Red Stockings to the 1880 Cincinnati Stars, to the 1884 Cincinnati Unions, to the 1891 Cincinnati Kelly's Killers, Cincinnati Sports Chronicle - Volume 1 brings all of the teams and their stories from the era back to life. Cincinnati Sports Chronicle - Volume 2 explores the first three decades of Cincinnati sports in the 20th Century. This era was dominated by the Cincinnati Reds since other sports had not fully made their appearance in the Queen City yet. However, the Reds were far from the only club on the sports scene at the time. From the 1912 Cincinnati Pippins to the 1921 Cincinnati Cuban Stars, to the 1921 Cincinnati Celts football club, Cincinnati Sports Chronicle - Volume 2 brings all of the teams and their stories from the era back to life.