2014 Conference Program

The 21st Annual NINE Spring Training Conference

March 12- March 15, 2014 Doubletree Inn, Tempe, Arizona

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

THE CY SEYMOUR LEADOFF SESSION:
Introduction, Lee Lowenfish

Janet Marie Smith- "Ballpark or Stadium: Why Does It Matter?"
 
 
THURSDAY, MARCH 13	

THE CY YOUNG SESSION
Chair: Trey Strecker
 
Paul Ringel, "The Rise and Fall of the Royal Rooters: Baseball, Politics, and Masculinity in Progressive Era Boston, 1897-1918"

Ed Edmonds, Michael Cozzillio, and Frank Houdek, "Helene Hathaway Robison Britton: Baseball's First Female Owner and Her Legal Battles"

Steve Gietschier, "The Second Ban Johnson: The Short, Bittersweet Career of Ernest S. Barnard"

THE HENRY CHADWICK SESSION
Chair: Dick Crepeau
 
David Block, "Obscure and Forgotten: The Long and Anonymous Life of the Original English Baseball"

James E. Brunson III, "Baseball Gothic or 'Skunk': The Monstrous Smell of Freedom and Citizenship, 1860-1890"

Scott Peterson, "Picturing 'The Grand Old Game': The Development of Baseball Journalism in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper"

Larry Gerlach, "Norman Rockwell Imagines the National Pastime: Baseball as American Cultural Representation"

Field Research: Mariners vs. Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields 

THE KEN BURNS SESSION
Chair: Sally Harrison-Pepper
Baseball and Documentary Film

Robert Cochrane, Boys of Summer

Jon Leonoudakis, Not Exactly Cooperstown and The Day the World Series Stopped

Geri Strecker, Black Baseball in Indiana
 
FRIDAY, MARCH 14

THE ANDY COHEN SESSION
Chair: Rob Fitts

John Rosengren, "Why Hank Greenberg Would Be Irrelevant Today (But Isn't)"

William Ressler, "Unique Yet Universal: How a Culturally Circumscribed Baseball Exhibition Provides Inclusive Meaning"

Robert A. Elias, "The World Baseball Classic's Conflicting Objectives"

 Jon Leonoudakis, "Baseball in the Digital Age"

THE VIC POWER SESSION
Chair: Roberta Newman

Lisa Doris Alexander, "42 and Hollywood's Version of Jackie Robinson's Legacy"

Robert Nowatzki, "Legitimate Black Heroes: The Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson, and the National Pastime in African American Literature"

Michael E. Lomax, '"Do Your Job, Do It Well, and Keep Your Mouth Shut': Elston Howard and the Code of Black Professionalism"

Mitchell Nathanson, "Dick Allen: Baseball's Bartleby"

THE RAY DANDRIDGE SESSION
Chair: Jim Overmyer

Kristin Anderson and Chris Kimball, "Candlestick in Suburban Minneapolis?: Horace Stoneham's Plans for a New Millers Stadium"

Laura Troiano, "The Physical and the Collective: Memory and the Creation of a Newark Baseball History"

Maureen Margaret Smith, "Readings of Monument Park at Yankee Stadium"

THE BOOG POWELL SESSION
Chair: David Pegram

Andy McCue, "A Match Not Made in Heaven: The Angels Leave Either Dodger Stadium or Chavez Ravine"

Richard Hardesty, '"Choke City': Urban Identity and the 1969 Baltimore Orioles"

Clayton Trutor, '"Loserville': Atlanta, Professional Sports, and Its Quest for Major League City Status, 1965-1976"

Robert F. Garratt, "How the Humm Babies Saved Baseball for San Francisco"

SATURDAY, MARCH 15

THE SCHOOLBOY ROWE SESSION
Chair: William Harris Ressler

Ron Briley, "Bill Denney and the American Dream: Baseball as a Symbol of Depression-Era America in Katherine Anne Porter's and Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools"

Lyle Spatz, "Dixie Walker's America: 1947"
Steve Treder, "Daddy Wags"

THE BILL MAZEROSKI SESSION
Chair: Ed Edmonds
 
James R. Walker, "Advertisers Expand the Coverage of Major League Baseball" 

Roberta J. Newman, "'Grab Some Buds': Baseball, Beer Advertising, and Masculinity"

Ed Mayo, Dobb Mayo, Andy Brogowicz, and John Weitzel, "Marketing in a Slow-Growth Industry: MLB's Won-Loss Record"

Thomas Gritton, Jr., Keith Sherony, Kevin Quinn, and Paul Bursik, "How Schedule Design Affects Winning"

Field Research: Rangers vs. A's at Phoenix Municipal Stadium 
 
THE BILL KIRWIN SESSION 

The Society for American Baseball Seymour Medal Award Presentation to Gerald C. Wood for Smokey Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend

Keynote Speaker: George Gmelch, "Fifty Years of Change: The Minor Leagues, Then and Now"