Join us for an exciting evening with WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" Reporter Ted Reinstein as he discusses his latest book Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier.
Since 1995, Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Boston’s WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle,” the nation’s longest-running locally-produced nightly-newsmagazine. He has also been regular contributor to the station’s political roundtable show, “On the Record.” Ted has been a member of the WCVB editorial board since 2010.
Elsewhere on television, Ted hosted the premiere season of the Discovery Channel's “Popular Mechanics” show, and hosted a special on America’s lighthouses for HGTV. For the Travel Channel's photo/adventure series, “FreezeFrame,” he explored Hawaii's volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. In 2002, he was part of a Chronicle team that received a prestigious National DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for Chronicle’s coverage of Boston’s Big Dig project. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island.
His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was released in May, 2013 by Globe-Pequot Press. National Geographic Traveler named it one of its “Best Picks.,” He is also the author of Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds (Globe Pequot Press/2015), and co-author, with his wife, Anne-Marie, of New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic (GPP/Rowman-Littlefield, Fall 2017). His most recent book is Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press/Fall 2021).
Ted is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, and lives just west of Boston with his wife and two daughters.