The 19th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball
March 13-16, 2013
Fiesta Resort Conference Center, Tempe, Arizona
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
Twenty Years of Baseball: Cup of Coffee Stories:
Kristin Anderson, Ballparks
Perry Barber, Umpires
Rob Bellamy, The Media
David Block, Early Baseball
Dwayne Brenna, Poetry
Rob Fitts, Asian baseball
Dorothy Mills, Women's Baseball Scholarship
Jim Overmyer, Black Baseball
Bill Ressler, Minor-League Baseball
Jenny Ring, Women's Baseball
Steve Treder, Statistics, Sabermetrics, and the Internet
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
THE MARTIN DIHIGO SESSION
Chair: George Gmelch
William Ressler and Ian Rebhan, "Is This Heaven? It's Iowa the World Baseball Classic: 'Field of Dreams Moments' in Global, Domestic, and Internal Marketing"
Daniel A. Nathan, "Fields Where Glory Does Not Stay: The Perils of Writing Negro League History"
Jesus Acosta, "'El Diamante de Beisbol': Transnational Baseball Communities and Settlement Patterns among Mexican Immigrants in the U.S."
THE RAY KINSELLA SESSION
Chair: Kevin Quinn
Larry Gerlach, "Hardball: The Fight over Professional Baseball in Salt Lake City"
Preston Miller, "'A Major League City': Coors Field, Downtown Denver, and the Art of Placemaking in Postindustrial Urban America"
Kristin Anderson and Chris Kimball, "A New Home for the Saints: Saint Paul Builds a Ballpark"
Steve Treder, "The Giants, the A's, and the San Francisco Bay Area"
Field Research Ballgame: Rangers vs. A's, Phoenix Municipal Stadium Dinner
THE BOB MOTLEY AND OSIBEE JELKS SESSION
Chair: Larry Gerlach
African American Umpires during the Civil Rights Era: Negro League Umpire Bob Motley and Pacific Coast League Umpire Osibee Jelks
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
THE CHARLES ALBERT BENDER SESSION
Chair: Jim Overmyer
Gerald C. Wood, "The Legend of Smoky Joe Wood"
Dan Levitt, "Battle at the Dock: The Federal League Tries to Sign Major League Players as They Return From the Around the World Tour"
Jim Leeke, "Wild Waves: Jack Barry's Charlestown Navy Yard Nine, 1918"
David J.Laliberte, "The White Earth Triumph: Baseball at Minnesota's White Earth Ojibwe Reservation, 1900-1925"
THE CURT FLOOD SESSION
Chair: Ed Edmonds
Mitchell Nathanson, "Who Exempted Baseball, Anyway? The Curious Development of the Antitrust Exemption That Never Was"
Michael E. Lomax, "Challenging Organized Baseball's Business Model: The Assault on Baseball's Reserve Clause"
Justin Turner, "Bowie Kuhn and Baseball Bridge-Building" Howard M. Wasserman, "The Economics of the Infield Fly Rule"
THE F.C. LANE SESSION
Chair: Willie Steele
Alan S. Kornspan, "An Historical Analysis of the Use of Statistics to Improve Baseball Performance: The Work of Coleman Griffith, Chester Snyder, Jack Sterrett, and Philip Wrigley"
Steve Gietschier, "'It's the World Series, and They're Down to Their Final Out': Baseball's Ultimate Clutch Situation"
Paul Burisk, Kevin Quinn, and Keith Sherony, "Pump or Dump: The Efficacy of Payroll Switch Strategies in MLB"
Mitchell Woltring and Colby B. Jubenville, "The Name of the Game: Do Statistics Confirm the Labels of Professional Baseball Eras?"
THE SCOTT HATTEBERG SESSION
Chair: Trey Strecker
Paul Brewer, "Sabermetrics and 'The Age of Fracture"'
Lee C. Kluck, "The War to End All Wars: The Rise of Rick Reichardt and the Beginning of Baseball's Modem Economic Age"
Ed Edmonds and Frank Houdek, "Lawyers in Baseball: A Top Ten List"
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
THE ROY HOBBS SESSION
Chair: Ron Briley
Chris Stride and Ffion Thomas, "Tension in the Union of Art and Baseball: Competition for Ownership of the Baseball Statuary and Its Influence upon Location and Design"
David M. Pegram, "Graphic Novels and the Visual Rhetoric of Baseball"
Adi Angel, "'She Remembered the Playground Games and the Dawn of Her Awareness of Being a Woman': Exploring Female Masculinity in Silvia Tennenbaum's Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife"
William Steele, "From the Inside Looking Out: Analyzing First-Person Narratives from the Yankee Dugout"
THE MAGGLIO ORDONEZ SESSION
Chair: Bill Ressler
James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, "Did Radio Grow the Game? An Analysis of the Relationship between the Size of Team Radio Networks and Attendance from 1936-1959"
Robert F. Garratt, "The Short, Happy Life of Matthew M. Fox, or How Horace Stoneham Followed the Money West"
Stephanie Liscio, "Chasing the Pennant"
Ballgame: Mariners vs. Rockies at Salt River Fields
THE BILL KIRWIN SESSION
The Society for American Baseball Research's 2013 Seymour Medal Presentation to Rob Fitts, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 tour of Japan
Keynote Speaker: Chris Lamb, "'Let Them Play!' The Cannon Street All-Stars and the 1955 Little League World Series"