25th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Celebrating 25 Years of NINE: Larry Gerlach
THE CY SEYMOUR LEAD-OFF SESSION
Arnold Hano, “Introduction: Memories of Alou”
“Alou: My Baseball Journey,” A Conversation with Coauthors Felipe Alou and Peter Kerasotis
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
THE ALBERT LASKER SESSION (Chair: Willie Steele)
Lindsay Bell, “Hero’s Mountain: Kenesaw Mountain Landis and the Politicization of Baseball Idols”
Roberta J. Newman, “We Love Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet . . . and Beer, Cat Food, and Margarine: Baseball and Advertising in the Era of Mad Men”
Justin Turner, “MLB, ‘God Bless America,’ and a Pre-Twitter Anthem Controversy”
THE MAMIE “PEANUT” JOHNSON SESSION (Chair: Stephanie Liscio)
John Burbridge, “Jackie Robinson and Jersey City”
Joseph Eaton, “The Cubs and ‘The Race’: Northside Baseball, the Chicago Defender, and African-American Chicago, 1969-1975”
Daniel T. Durbin, “Pressures: Stories from the African-American Experience in Major League Baseball”
FIELD RESEARCH: Rangers vs Athletics at Hohokam Stadium
THE CRASH DAVIS SESSION (Chair: Lisa Doris Alexander)
Three films by Jon Leonoudakis: “Doug McWilliams: A Man with an Eye for Baseball,” “Jackie Robinson: A Lion in Winter,” and “Jim ‘Mudcat’ Grant: Baseball and Vietnam”
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
THE PAM POSTEMA SESSION (Chair: James Walker)
Joseph L. Price, “How to Read a Ballpark”
Allison Levin, “All in Good Fun? The Emasculating Rituals of MLB Players”
Jordan Max-Ryan Englekirk, “Florida: Where Americans Go to Die and Umpires Are Born”
THE JACK KEEFE SESSION (Chair: Trey Strecker)
Jason Cannon, “’We Have Got Too Much Murphy’: Cubs Fans and the World Series Ticket Scandal of 1908”
Jim Leeke, “Moose and Eddie: Harry McCormick and Edward Grant in the Great War”
Scott D. Peterson, “’Finding the Real’: Dixon, Lardner, Broun, and the ‘Great Cultural Divide’”
Robert F. Garratt, “Jazz Age Owner: A Literary Life of Charles A. Stoneham”
THE MIKE VEECK SESSION (Chair: Bill Ressler)
Dan Levitt, “From Deadball to Techball: The Evolution of Baseball Innovation”
Al Piacente, “Not Our Mother’s (or Father’s) Baseball?”
Jon Leonoudakis, “Swing and a Miss: How Most MLB Teams Fail at Creating an Engaging Fan Experience, and How to Fix It”
THE EDGAR MARTINEZ SESSION (Chair: Roberta Newman)
Paul Hensler, “Issues of Race, War, and Cultural Zeitgeist: Baseball in the Late 1960s”
Stephanie Liscio, “Franchise Wanted: A Suburban Community’s Push for a National League Team”
Charlie Vascellaro, “Reconciling the Ravine”
Charles S. Adams, “Seattle, the Mariners, and the Lack of an Adequate Myth”
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
THE ROY CAMPANELLA SESSION (Chair: Lee Lowenfish)
Steven Gietschier, “Baseball’s Other Czar: Judge Bramham Confronts the Depression and Saves the Minors”
Lawrence Baldassaro, “An Oral History of Italian American Major Leaguers from the 1930s to the Present”
Steve Treder, “1946: Major League Baseball’s 1492”
THE BILL VIRDON SESSION (Chair: Justin Turner)
Robert Bellamy and James Walker, “Pirates Pinned-In, Again? Missing the Video ‘Gravy Train’”
Michael E Lomax, “Organized Baseball’s Business Model”
Mitchell Nathanson, “More Than Just California Dreamin’?: California Labor Code §2855 and Its Applicability To Major League Baseball”
Ed Edmonds and Frank Houdek, “Celebrating the 2017 World Series: The Astros and Dodgers Meet the Law”
FIELD RESEARCH: Brewers vs Rockies at Salt River Fields
THE BILL KIRWIN SESSION Galleria Ballroom
The Society for American Baseball Research Seymour Medal Award Presentation: Jerald Podair, City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
Roundtable Discussion: “Baseball and the West” with Jerald Podair (City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles), Lee Lowenfish (Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman), Andy McCue (Mover and Shaker: Walter O”Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball’s Western Expansion), and Robert F. Garratt (Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants)