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Hot Stove, Cool Music Presents
Peter Gammons' Hot Stove Roundtable

Peter Gammons, Theo Epstein, J.P. Ricciardi Host Hot Stove Baseball Insiders Forum To Benefit Foundation to Be Named Later and The Jimmy Fund

BOSTON, MA, November 9, 2005 —- Organizers of the Hot Stove, Cool Music concert series today announced an addition to the fundraising lineup: Peter Gammons' Hot Stove Roundtable. The event, to take place on Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. at the Paradise Lounge in Boston, MA, will feature a Hot Stove discussion with a who's who of baseball's intelligentsia, including ESPN baseball commentator Peter Gammons, former Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein and Toronto Blue Jays General Manager J.P. Ricciardi. Additional participants will be announced in the near future.

The Roundtable is a special addition to the thriving Hot Stove, Cool Music concert series, which has raised more than $600,000 for the Jimmy Fund and Theo Epstein's Foundation To Be Named Later, a branch of the Red Sox Foundation.

Tickets for the Hot Stove Roundtable cost $100. They can be purchased beginning Thursday, December 8th at 12:00 p.m. at www.thedise.com or the Paradise box office. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. on the day of the event, and the discussion will run from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m..