*All times Eastern Daylight Time
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
Session #1—5:30-7:00 pm
Welcome—David Pegram and Willie Steele, Co-Directors
John Cairney and Rick Burton—“Positioned to Win: Australia’s Unlikely Path to Baseball Influence”
Tim Johnson—“A Passion for Baseball: The Forgotten Pitching Career of Robert Neyland”
Vanessa Viola and Fabio Montella— “What Does the Map Say?: Storytelling & Visual
Representation of Negro Leagues Stadiums Through GIS Mapping”
John McLaughlin— “From Phooey to F*ck: Fans React to MLB Relocations 1953-2025”
Session #2—7:15-8:30 pm
Cary Heinz—“Should Eddie Cicotte Be in the Baseball Hall of Fame?”
Rob Elias—“Danny Gardella: Free Agency Pioneer and Renaissance Man”
Michael Kane—“Babe Ruth, Gentleman Farmer?”
Greg Phegley—“The ‘Ol Left-Hander: Joe Nuxhall, A Cincinnati Icon”
Session #3—8:45-10:00 pm
Joe Marren—“Winter Brouhahas: The Winter Business Meetings of the Negro Leagues in World War II”
Claudia Caplan—“ ‘To rip off what you had in the name of what you ain’t never gonna get’: Jack Robinson and Amiri Baraka”
Donna Halper— “Will ‘Cannonball’ Jackman and the Philadelphia Colored Giants: A Barnstorming Success Story of the late 1920s.”
Randy Bostic and Andrew Mauldin—“Analyzing the Impact of the House v. NCAA Settlement on College Baseball”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
Session #4—5:30-7:00 pm
Rachel Franklin—“The Fictional Baseball Manager”
Bob Cullen—“ ‘A Premier Pitcher in Baseball Circles’: The Legacy of Herbert “Doc” Bracken”
Steve Rennie—“Baseball Among the Arctic Whalers, 1860-1900”
Billy Gerchick—“Bootlegging, Grass, & Shenanigans: Tales of the Deviant Behavior in Cactus League Lawn Seats”
Session #5—7:15-8:30 pm
Emalee Nelson Stone—“Beyond the Bases: Amanda Clement’s Enduring Legacy and Its Resonance in Women’s Sport History”
Leslie Heaphy—“Who Were the New York Bloomer Girls?”
Anthony Salazar—“Celebrating Latinos and the 1965 Season: A Journey Through Topps and Social-Historical Influences”
David Krell—“Dialogue, Baseball, and Chicago Fire”
Session #6—8:45-10:15 pm
Cliff Hight— “Hanging by a Thread: Three Minor League Teams in the Early 20th Century”
Gary Mintz—“Remembering Willie One Year Later: Me, Willie, and the Memory of Willie Mays”
Mark Pelesh—“More Than a Dog and a Beer”
Leighton Reynolds—“The Medical Anatomy of a Tragedy as Applied to Major League Baseball”
Greg Frediani– “(More) Reveals and Revelations from a Baseball Card Database . . .”