The 28th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (virtual)
FRIDAY, MARCH 5
THE CY SEYMOUR LEAD-OFF SESSION
Greetings from Cooperstown! : 25 Years at the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jim Gates, Librarian Emeritus, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
SATURDAY, MARCH 6
THE OMAR MORENO SESSION
R.A.R. Edwards, “Claiming a Legacy: Dummy Hoy and the Signs of Baseball”
Brian Sheehy, “Selling Patriotism: The Connection Between Baseball, the Military, and the Government in WWI and WWII”
Mark Jent, “Chasing Brooklyn: My Journey to Meet the Remaining Brooklyn Dodgers”
Charles DeMotte, “Marge Schott: Free Speech and Political Correctness”
THE JIM BUNNING SESSION
Joseph Eaton, ” ‘Rick Monday . . . You made a great play’: Baseball, Patriotism, and Protest in the Bicentennial Year”
Mitchell Nathanson, “Rules for Baseball Radicals: How Jim Bouton and Ball Four Changed the Narrative of Baseball”
Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas, “Freedom of Expression in Baseball: The Public, the Private, and the Political”
Charlie Vascellaro, “How I Survived the Baseball Apocalypse”
FRIDAY, MARCH 12
THE PEPPER PAIRE SESSION
Eric B. Berg, “The First Professional African American Baseball Player in Minnesota”
Emalee Nelson, “Cuba, Colorism, and Curveballs: The Story of Seven Cuban Women’s Journey in the AAGPBL”
Scott D. Peterson, “Finding Ella, or What Can We Learn from Historical Fiction?”
Cathy Leogrande, “America’s Pastime? : Baseball and Immigrant Populations”
SATURDAY, MARCH 13
THE BIFF POCOROBA SESSION
Chris Stride, “Why Aaron Stayed in Atlanta and Cobb Didn’t Go to Cobb County: When Baseball Statues Meet Ballpark Relocation”
Lee C. Kluck, “Go West, Young Man: Harry Dalton, the California Angels, and a Case of Manifest Destiny Derailed”
Paul Hensler, “Catching Baseball Fever: The Marketing Boom of the 1980s”
Dan Levitt, “Baseball’s First Drug Controversy”
Steve Treder, “The Lip and the Nice Guy: Leo Durocher and Horace Stoneham”
THE TURKEY STEARNES SESSION
Michael Cozzillio and Ed Edmonds, “In the Wake of Robinson: The Impact of Breaking MLB’s Color Barrier on the Black Press”
David C. Ogden, “Tracking the Decline: Results of a Two-Decade Study of African Americans in Youth Select Baseball”
Roberta J. Newman, “From Zeros to Heroes: Morita Manasori’s Rookies, Shonen Manga, and the Transformative Powers of Baseball”
Howard M. Wasserman, “Testing the Koufax Curve: How 18 Jewish Pitchers, 18 Jewish Hitters, and Rod Carew Performed on Yom Kippur”
FRIDAY, MARCH 19
THE BOB PRINCE SESSION
Allison Levin, ” ‘Baseball Twitter’: The Best Way to Watch a Game?”
Bob Cullen, “William Morris Hunt’s The Ball Players and Why It Still Matters Today”
Natalie Stopyra and Rick Burton, “Kren Bats: An American Story”
Katie Neipris, “Examining Gendered Spectatorship through Baseball Songs”
Adam J. Criblez, “Baseball: Just a (Board) Game?”
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
THE BILL KIRWIN SESSION
Seymour Medal Award, presented to Eric Nusbaum (Stealing Home) by Scott Bush, CEO, Society for American Baseball Research