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The Kosciuszko Reds: The Home Team of the Polish South Side, 1908-1919
Tuesday, March 12
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Shorewood Village Center
In the early years of the 20th century, before Milwaukee became a big-league city, the Kosciuszko Reds, a local semiprofessional baseball team, became the darlings of the Polish immigrant neighborhoods on the near South Side. The colorful story of the "Koskys," illustrated with PowerPoint, can tell us a lot both about baseball, and the ways of life of Polish-American Milwaukee in its heyday, one hundred years ago.
ABOUT NEAL PEASE
Neal Pease is professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a longtime resident of Shorewood. He specializes in modern European history, especially of Poland and east central Europe, but has a side interest in the history of sport. He teaches a course on baseball in American history at UWM, and has published articles on the history of the Kosciuszko Reds.