*All times Eastern Daylight Time
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
Opening & Panel #1 5:00-6:30 pm (2:00-3:30 Pacific)
Nina-Grace Montes, “Annie Savoy and the Gendered Politics of Baseball Fandom”
Cynthia A. Kierner, “Joan Whitney Payson and the Winning Roots of the Early New York Mets”
Cary Heinz, “Baseball in My Hometown: Michigan City, Indiana”
Nick Mendillo, “Gunslingers on the Diamond: Major League as a Modern Echo of Myth in the Old West”
Panel #2 6:45-8:15 pm (3:45-5:15 Pacific)
Cathy Leogrande, “The Kids are Back: The Return of Pablo Sanchez and Backyard Baseball is Good for the Game”
David Gunzerath, “Dodgerthon ‘58: Adapting the Telethon to a Political Purpose”
Eric Romo, “From Baseball Fan to Content Creator”
Gary Mintz & Norm Coleman, “Horace Stoneham: A Cultural Pioneer of Baseball”
Panel #3 8:30-10:00 pm (5:30-7:00 Pacific)
Katie Woods, “America’s Summer Stage: Hap Dumont, the National Baseball Congress, and the Cultural Legacy of Wichita’s Baseball Laboratory”
Anthony Salazar, “The 1975 Attempts to Normalize US-Cuban Relations through Beisbol”
Herman Howard, “The Other Chase: Media Coverage of Pete Rose’s 1978 44-Game Hit Streak and Parasocial Interaction”
Laura Wulf, “In the Game: A Photographic Documentation of Girls and Women Playing Baseball, 1994-2026”
Jeffrey Kraus, “The Struggle for St. Louis: The Cardinals Outlast the Browns”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
Panel #4 5:30-7:00 pm (2:30-4:00 Pacific)
Andrew C.M. Mizsak, “The Presidential First Pitch: Purely Symbolic or a Unifying Gesture?”
Mark Pelesh, “Root, Root, Root for the ‘Home’ Team”
Don Schwartz, “Harvey Haddix and the Perfect Game that Wasn’t”
Connie Sharpe, “Touching Bases From Battle to Ball Park ”
Panel #5 7:15-8:30 pm (4:14-5:30 Pacific)
Joe Marren, “A Woman’s Place is at Home Plate”
David Krell, “Ain’t No Man Got to Be Common: Satchel Paige in Popular Culture”
Ben Railton, “What Shigeo Takayama Tells Us about Jackie Robinson & Mid-20th Century Baseball”
Bob Cullen, “Moments of Affirmation, Years of Affliction: The Life of Baseball Pioneer Tom Alston”
Panel #6 8:45-10:30 pm (5:45-7:30 Pacific)
Leslie Heaphy, “Who Were the Dayton Marcos?”
William H. Johnson, “John T. Brush’s Early Machinations: 1895-1896”
Paul Scimonelli, “Patato Pequeno: The Baseball Life of Camilo Pascual”
Jeff Cohen & Leonard Aberman, “Fun Yes, but Easy No: Building an Independent Baseball Podcast, One Episode at a Time”
William Alderman, “Pros and Cons of the Modern Rules”