The 1455 Literary Arts has announced that Tim Wendel, author of Escape from Castro’s Cuba and Castro’s Curveball, will speak at the 1455 Summer Festival, the organization’s free and accessible virtual event, as part of a session entitled “Tim and Ethelbert Play Catch” on Saturday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m. EST.

Tim will discuss the state of baseball with poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller. Tim and Ethelbert have long chronicled the national pastime in their books, essays, columns and poetry.

Specific information about the 1455 Summer Festival, including extensive information on all the programming and participating authors and a registration link can be found here!

Tim Wendel is the acclaimed author of fourteen books, including Castro’s Curveball (Bison Books, 2006) and Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever. He is a founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly and a writer in residence at Johns Hopkins University. His stories and columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Psychology Today, and Esquire. Visit his website www.timwendel.com.