Announcement: Nine conference slated for March

Herewith, the program highlights for the 15th annual Nine Spring Training Conference held in Tucson, Arizona from March 13-16. Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman, is the keynote speaker for the meeting, which will also pay tribute to the late Bill Kirwin, the journal’s former editor.

Presentations include:

Frantic Frankie Lane
The Announcer in the Television Age
’Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?’: Ballplayers as Role Models in Young Adult Literature, 1995-2007
A Perfect Baseball Day: Black Press Coverage of the East-West Classic
Missionary to the Democracy: Jackie Robinson and American Civil Religion
Bucking the Trend: The 1946 Integration of the Cleveland Buckeyes
’Do the Right Thing?’: A Case for Inducting Curt Flood into Cooperstown
Baseball Follows the Flag: Diplomacy and the National Pastime in the Philippines before World War I
’One-Hundred Per Cent American’: Nationalism, Masculinity, and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
Red Press Nation: The Baseball Rhetoric of Lester Rodney
Coloring the American Dream: Rewriting the National Pastime through the Negro Leagues Museum
Ben Harjo’s All-Indian Baseball Club
’When Nine of Them Died’: The Story of the 1946 Spokane Indians Minor League Team’s Tragic Bus Crash
Leo Durocher and the Bricklayer’s Wife
’A Big Howl from Property’: A Century of Opposition to Downtown Minneapolis Baseball
A Test of the Artificial Selection Hypothesis
Going South: Professional Baseball’s Contraction in Canada
Earl Toolson and His Legacy in Baseball’s Labor History
‘A Mirthful Spectacle’: Race, Blackface Minstrelsy and Base Ball (1874-1888)
Send In the Clowns: Reassessing Black Baseball’s Novelty Acts After the Desegregation of the Major Leagues
Black Business and Black Baseball: An (Un)Easy Alliance
The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976): Placing Negro League Baseball in the American Mainstream
The Magnolia Ball Club of 1843: Overturning Traditional Notions of Baseball’s Origin
A Disabilities Studies Perspective on Frank ‘Brownie’ Burke and Other Disabled Mascots
No Dummies: Deaf Players in Baseball
Mind Over Batter: The Cubs and the ‘Headshrinker’ in the Late 1930s
A Bitter Rivalry Long Forgotten: The Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees, 1947-1956
Why I Hate the Yankees: Sports Rivalry and Understanding Conflict in America
Dodging a Bullet: The Potential for Celebratory Riots in Major League Baseball