Van Lingle Mungo - Toes the Mound for Six More Starts in June of '17
April 25, 2017
He was a man who once boxed with Ernest Hemingway, struck out Babe Ruth and created an international incident when one of his nighttime “amours” came fully equipped with a jealous husband and a squadron of rifle-wielding Cuban Federales.
He threw hard and drank even harder, cutting a wide, colorful swath through the barrooms, boudoirs and baseball diamonds of the 1930s. He was Van Lingle Mungo—pitcher/fighter/cad/husband/father and one of the most memorable characters in Major League baseball history.
And now, from the Great Beyond, he is determined to tell his own version of the truth in MUNGO!, a one-man show that opens in June of 2017 as part of the 8th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Written by James Harmon Brown and Marc Peter Reyna, directed by George Lockwood and performed by Reyna the play will transport us back to baseball during the Great Depression, channeling Mungo’s rise from the sandlots of South Carolina to the Polo Grounds in New York City, pausing in between
