Agenda (tentative)
Agenda for 13 th Annual Conference
Baseball in Literature and Culture
Friday, March 28, 2008
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:05 Welcome:
Warren Tormey, Conference Coordinator
Dr. John McDaniel, Dean, College of Liberal Arts , MTSU
Keynote Address:
Dr. Pete Carino, Indiana State University
"Baseball Studies: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?"
9:15-9:55 Concurrent Sessions A
Session A1:
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Gerald Wood
James Blackstock , Cleveland , OH : “What Do Rocky Colavito and Shoeless Joe Jackson Have in Common? CURSES!”
Shawn O'Hare , Carson-Newman College : “The Making of Maz: Mazzilli, Mets, and Marketing”
Session A2:
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair: Rebekah Billings
Steven Andrews , Grinnell College : “Who's on the Verge of Integration? Abbott and Costello in The Naughty Nineties ”
Matthew Gladman , Ohio University : “The Use of Baseball Lexicon in Non-Baseball Cinema”
10:00-10:40 Concurrent Sessions B
Session B1:
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Tom Wells
Ron Kates, Middle Tennessee State University : “Rings Born of Impulse: Gift-Exchange Economies in Greenberg's The Celebrant ”
Rebekah Billings , University of North Dakota , “Re-reading the Natural in the Twenty-First Century”
Session B2:
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair: Bob Barrier
Sarah Bunting, TomatoNation.com: “Flawed Diamonds: Irritating Imperfections in Six Baseball Movies”
Carl Schinasi , Miles College : “What Baseball Makes”
10:45-11:25 Concurrent Sessions C
Session C1:
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Ralph Speer
Robert Barrier, Kennesaw State University : “Metaphor and Language in Baseball Journalism: The Teens, Twenties, and Thirties”
Donald Roy, Middle Tennessee State University : “A League of Our Own: Motives Influencing Fantasy Baseball Participation”
Session C2: Chair: Daniel Anderson
Location: Dining Room C
Thomas Veve, Dalton State University : “Pumpsie Green: The Last of the First”
Stephanie Liscio, Case Western Reserve University : “Bucking the Trend: The 1946 Integration of the Cleveland Buckeyes”
Session C3: Chair: Warren Tormey
Location: Tennessee Room
Rick Bombard, Kennesaw State University : “Still Under the Influence: Non-Chemical Cheating in Professional Baseball”
Andrew Hazucha, Ottawa (KS) University: “Proselytizing Pastime: Appropriating Jesus at Coors Field”
11:30-12:10: Concurrent Sessions D
Session D1:
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Stephanie Liscio
Harriet Hamilton, Stillman College : “The Contributions of Tom Wilson, A Negro League Team Owner, to the Nashville Community: An Excerpt from Daddy's Scrapbook”
Daniel Anderson, Lawrence University : “‘Minds of Fleetful Thoughts': Dave Malarcher's ‘Sunset Before Dawn' and the Intellectual Project of the Negro Leagues"
Session D2:
Location: Dining Room C Chair: Carl Schinasi
Steven Walker, Middle Tennessee State University : “A Wicked Curve"
Tom Wells, Schreiner University : “Politics as Usual”
12:15-1:30 Luncheon and Orestes Destrade Talk :
Tennessee Room
12:15-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Orestes Destrade Talk (20 min + ~10 min. Q & A)
1:40-2:20 Concurrent Sessions E
Session E1:
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Don Roy
Ralph Speer, Northwest Nazarene University : “Sagebrush and Diamond Dust”
Gary Gravely, Tennessee Technological University : “The Isolation of the Pitcher: A Literary Analysis of Michael Shaara's For Love of the Game ”
Session E2:
Location: Dining Room C Chair: Ron Kates
George Fleet, Youngstown State University : “Myth, Conjecture and Fact: The Debate Over Baseball's Origins”
Aaron Miller, Miami (OH) University: “Baseball and the Early Conservation Movement”
Session E3:
Location: Tennessee Room Chair: Matthew Gladman
Gerald Wood, Carson-Newman College : “Joe Wood in Hollywood ”
Nick Bush, Middle Tennessee State University : “Joe Jackson and Hugh Fullerton in Cinematic Samples of the 1919 World Series”
2:25-3:00 Session F
Session F1:
Location: Dining Room C Chair: Warren Tormey
Clay Snellgrove, Middle Tennessee State University : Excerpts from The Ball Player
