The start of baseball spring training is a couple of weeks away, but two key figures in the game’s greatest rivalry are on deck next week in Fairfield.
A “Conversation with Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein” will take place at Sacred Heart University on Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the school’s Edgerton Center, 5151 Park Ave. The program, sponsored by SHU’s Student Affairs Lecture Series, will start at 7 p.m.
Cashman, New York Yankees’ senior vice president and general manager, and Epstein. former Boston Red Sox general manager and now the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, will present an evening of “hot stove talk” as they discuss baseball, their jobs and the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
The program will be moderated by Steve Berthiaume, host of ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight.”
Tickets cost $35 for the general public; $25, university faculty and staff and part-time and graduate students, and $15, full-time undergraduate students. Tickets may be purchased at www.sacredheart.edu or at the box office from noon to 4 p.m.
Call 203-371-7908 for information.
