Bringing together baseball researchers, historians, artists, authors, and fans
2022 Conference Program
The 29th AnnualNINESpring Training Conference
March 2-5, 2022
Tempe, Arizona
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
THE CY SEYMOUR LEAD-OFF SESSION Moderator: Willie Steele
An evening with Jean Fruth and Anika Orrock
Jean Fruth is a traveling photographer for La Vida Baseball, a digital media company that tells the story of Latino baseball across the United States and Latin America through original video, written and social content. Her book, Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin, was released in June 2019.
Anika Orrock is an award-winning illustrator, writer, designer, cartoonist, storyteller and author of The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (2020) and the illustrator of Birdie Can, Too! by Malaika Underwood (2021).
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
THE BOBBY MURCER SESSION Moderator: Gary Gershman
Jay Hurd, “Baseball Lore and Legend: Tedious Distraction or Legitimate Resource”
Robert F. Garratt, “A Fresh Scent of Scandal: The Dolan-O’Connell Affair”
THE VAN LINGLE MUNGO SESSION Moderator: Jean Ardell
Autumn Marshall, “Fueling Success: Sports Dietitians in Baseball”
Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson, “The First Amendment and Baseball: Controversies and Politics”
Rodney Paul, “Daily Fantasy Baseball: A Game of Chance or Skill?”
Field Research: Giants vs. Angels (event canceled)
THE DOROTHY MILLS & ARNOLD HANO SESSION Moderator: David Pegram
Yuriko Gamo Romer, “Diamond Diplomacy” (a film in progress)
Charlie Vascellaro, “Roland Hemond: My Mentor, My Friend”
Stephen Hano, Jean Ardell, and Dan Ardell, “The Life and Legacy of Arnold Hano” (panel discussion)
FRIDAY, MARCH 4
THE GRANT JACKSON SESSION Moderator: Justin Turner
Jay Thomas, “Art and the Psychology of Baseball (Or Vice-Versa)”
Richard Black, “Foul Lines and Fairways: The Baseball Jeremiad of Mark DiIonno’s Gods of Wood and Stone”
Bob Gorman, “The Sovereign’s Orb: The Ball as Metaphor in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”
Eric Gray, “Bases to Bleachers: A Collection of Personal Baseball Stories from the Stands and Beyond”
THE “STEEL ARM” JOHNNY TAYLOR SESSION Moderator: Allison Levin
Jason Cannon, “’He isn’t dealing with hamburger people’: Ray Kroc, Willie McCovey, and the 1974 San Diego Padres”
Stephanie Liscio, “A Seasoned Rookie: Sam Jethroe Joins the Boston Braves”
Cary Heinz, “The Four: Racism in Baseball’s Second Generation of African American Players”
Eileen M. Angelini, “Richard and Robinson: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Racial Discrimination”
THE STEVE BALBONI SESSION Moderator: Dan Levitt
Andy McCue, “It Really was a League Matter: Ford Frick and the Definition of a Commissioner”
Cathy Leogrande, “The Fordham Flash: The Life and Career of Frankie Frisch”
Mark McGee, “Crafting Baseball Legends: The Managerial Skills of Harry Craft”
THE VON HAYES SESSION Moderator: Roberta Newman
Ronald W. Cox and G. Nelson Bass, “Class (AAA) Conflict: 100 Years of Exploitation”
Justin Turner, “Out at Home: Two Norfolk Little Leagues vs. the United States Navy”
Jessica Skolnikoff and Robert Engvall, “Is Baseball Hastening Its Own Demise?”
SATURDAY, MARCH 5
THE ELEANOR DAPKUS SESSION Moderator: Stephanie Liscio
Emalee Nelson, “Vamos Chicas!: Mexican American Women’s Baseball Leagues of the Pre-World War II Midwest”
Roberta J. Newman, “The Girl with the Iron Arm: Tetsuwan Garu and the Mythical Birth of Professional Women’s Baseball in Japan”
THE ELLA BLACK SESSION Moderator: Jason Cannon
Eric Berg, “The Art of Closing: When a College Dies a Baseball Story Also Comes to an End—A Remembrance of MacMurray College’s Baseball Program, 1958-2020”
Gregory Bancroft, “ ‘You’ve Got This!’: The Power Behind Little League Baseball’s Basic Meme and its Efficacy in Framing Conditions for Constructive Interactions”
Dan Levitt, “Sign Stealing Before Video: Was it Legal?”
Field Research: Mariners vs Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields (event cancelled)
THE BILL KIRWIN SESSION
Seymour Medal Award: Steve Treder, Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham, presented by the Society for American Baseball Research
