NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture announces THE 16th ANNUAL SPRING
TRAINING CONFERENCE on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball
March 12-15, 2009
Clarion Hotel Tucson Airport–Tucson, Arizona
Call for Papers
The NINE Spring Training Conference invites original, unpublished papers that
study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history and social
policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be
submitted by December 1, 2008, to:
NINE Spring Training Conference
c/o Trey Strecker
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306-0460
Email: tstrecker@bsu.edu<mailto:tstrecker@bsu.edu>
Email abstracts are preferred. Authors will be notified as quickly as possible
whether their papers have been accepted. Authors are required to register for
the conference and present their work in person.
The conference will include morning sessions, a Saturday evening banquet, and
opportunities for afternoon “field research.”
Keynote Speaker: Peter Morris
Peter Morris’s name is familiar to baseball scholars everywhere. His books
include Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan, a study of the game from
1840 to 1875 (winner of the 2004 Seymour Medal and a Michigan Notable Book), and
the two-volume A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped
Baseball (recipient of the 2006 Seymour Medal and Casey Award). In 2008, Morris
published Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped
Baseball and But Didn’t We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer
Era.
Featured Guest: Arnold Hano
Acclaimed author Arnold Hano will host Thursday’s Cy Seymour Baseball
Story-Telling session. Hano’s A Day in the Bleachers is a classic piece of
baseball literature. He is the award-winning writer and editor of numerous
articles, anthologies, and books on baseball and other subjects. Hano received
the Sidney Hillman Award in 1963 for his article on California farm labor, “The
Burned Out Americans,” which appeared in Saga Magazine.
Registration
Conference registration forms are available online on the new NINE website at
http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/nine.journal.
The $175 conference registration fee includes the Saturday evening banquet and
tickets for two spring training games, if paid prior to December 1, 2008. After
December 1st, the conference fee will be $195, and game tickets are not
guaranteed.
Attendees can register in one of two ways. Those wishing to pay online may use
PayPal through the link provided on the NINE website. Those wishing to pay by
check can print their registration information (name, mailing address, phone,
email, and academic affliation [if applicable]) and send it along with their
conference fee to:
Dan and Jean Ardell
P. O. Box 482
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
For further information about conference registration, please email Dan Ardell
at dardell@roadrunner.com<mailto:dardell@roadrunner.com> or Jean Ardell at
jeanardell@yahoo.com<mailto:jeanardell@yahoo.com>.
For hotel reservations, contact the Clarion Hotel Tucson Airport, 6901 South
Tucson Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85706: 1-800-526-0550. Rates are $89.00/single;
$99.00/double. To ensure the conference rate, rooms must be booked prior to
March 5, 2009. When booking, be sure to mention NINE: A Journal of Baseball
History and Culture.
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