OCTOBER 12-13, 2023
*All times Eastern Time
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
Session #1—5:45-7:00 pm
Welcome—David Pegram and Willie Steele, Co-Directors
David Krell—“Walking the Baseball Beat: Dialogue, Blue Bloods, and New York City”
David A. Jepsen— “Zane Grey: Ballplayer and Baseball Fiction Writer”
Ben Brown— “A Postmodernist Approach to Mark Harris’ The Southpaw and Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life, by Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner”
Session #2—7:00-8:30 pm
Ben Railton—“The Celestials’ Last Game: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America”
Joe Marren— “Why I Decided to Write About Racism and Baseball”
Charles DeMotte—Baseball Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyan’s Writings on the National Pastime
Mark Hoose—“Veeck’s Double Play”
Session #3—8:30-10:00 pm
Rebecca A.R. Edwards—“What Difference Does a Game Make?”
Emalee Nelson—“A Brief History of Disch Field”
Mark Pelesh—“Damonsday MMXXII: Baseball Fortells the Metaverse”
Cathy Leogrande—“Capturing the Game on Canvas: Norman Rockwell’s Baseball Illustrations”
Aaron Burtch— “The Team I Love is Killing Me: An Analysis of the Walk-Off and Sports Grief”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
Session #4—6:00-7:30 pm
Claudia Caplan Wolff—“The Colony of Baseball” Puerto Rico and the ‘National Pastime’”
Curt Smith—“The State of the Game”
Timothy Jurkovac—“Ballpark Naming Rights: Commodifying the Commons”
Lily Newman—“The AAGPBL: Was it Ever Supposed to Be Baseball?”
Leighton J. Reynolds—“The Perfect Storm in the Brain: A Case Presentation”
Session #5—7:30-9:00 pm
Bob Cullen—“The Launch of a Career in the National Pastime: Jim ‘Zipper’ Zapp Plays Baseball for the U.S. Navy”
Ryan Woodward—“Mind the Gap: Barnstorming Rookies Caught Between A League of Their Own and Title IX”
Nick J. Sciullo—“The Racial Suicide Squeeze: The Resistance to Afro-Latinidad in Baseball”
Brian Sheehy—“Boston Baseball’s First Star: James D’Wolf Lovett”
Cary Heinz—“Cap Anson Revisited”
BREAK
Session #6—9:15-10:30 pm
Katherine Walden, Gregory Bond, Clinton Carlson, Michael Hebbeler, and Matthew Insley— “The Found Field Project: Baseball, Community, and History in South Bend’s Urban Core”
Eric Poulin—“After Sundown: Dan Thomas and Mental Health Treatment Amongst Pro Ballplayers”
Evan Thompson— “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: The LCS, 1969-1984”
Greg Frediani— “Access and Innocence. Spring Training in the 1980s”