Agenda for 18th Annual
Baseball in Literature
and Culture Conference
April 5, 2013
Middle Tennessee State University
James Union Building
7:45-8:15 Registration
and Breakfast
8:15-8:30 Welcome
Warren Tormey, Conference
Coordinator
Dr.
Brad Bartel, University Provost
8:30-9:15 Keynote
Address: Dr. Andrew Hazucha, Ottawa University:
“A Jim Bouton Retrospective: Zen and the Politics
of the Knuckleball”
9:20-10:20 Concurrent
Sessions A
Session A1: “Negro League Contexts”
Location: Hazlewood Chair:
- Stephanie Liscio, Case Western Reserve Univ.
“Battles on the Field:
Umpire-Player Disagreements in Negro League Baseball in Cleveland and
Their Implications”
- Dan Anderson, Dominican Univ., “’Sensational War of Words’: Cultural Ideals, the African-American
Press, and the Formation of the Negro Leagues”
- Brian Steverson, Knoxville TN: “Negro
League Baseball in Verse”
Session A2: “Baseball
in Historical, Poetic, and Cultural Expression”
Location:
Dining Rm. C Chair:
- David Cicotello, Murfreesboro
TN: “New Developments in McFarland’s Historical Ballparks Series”
- Mark Sickman,
Baseballbard.com: “Caught in a Run-Down: The Perilous Position of an Online
Poetry Publisher”
- Ben Morrill, Middle Tennessee State
University: “The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Influence in the
Development of Private Sports Museums and Halls of Fame”
Session A3: “19th
Century Baseball”
Location:
Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
- Bob Barrier, Kennesaw State: “’The
Great Match’ and ‘Our Baseball Club’:
Two Early Baseball Novels”
- Josh Howard, Middle Tennessee State
University: “Amateur Baseball in Alleghany County, VA, During
the Late-Nineteenth Century”
- Warren Tormey, Middle Tennessee
State University: “August 23rd, 1860: The Day Baseball Fell”
10:30-11:30 Concurrent
Sessions B
Session B1: “Baseball and Locality”
Location:
Hazlewood Chair:
- Amanda Bales, Lincoln
University: “Why I Want The Cubs to Win the World Series”
- Michael Pagel, Northeast State
CC: “William Heuman’s ‘Brooklyns Lose’ (1954): Dodges Tragedy with the Goodwill of
Neighbors”
- Bill Gruber, Emory University: “Jocks,
Herbs, and the 1936 Yankees”
Session B2: “Baseball in Film and TV”
Location: Dining
Rm. C Chair:
- Ginger Stelle, Morthland
College: “’E.T. Steal Home’: Baseball on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
The X-Files”
- Ron Briley, Sandia Prep.: “A
New Beginning for the Baseball Film Genre: Bang
the Drum Slowly (1974)”
- Phil Oliver, Middle Tennessee State
University: “Right When They’re Wrong: Fallible Umpires and Infallible Rules”
Session B3:
“Seeing Stars: Baseball Heroes”
Location:
Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
- Stephen Andrews, Grinnell
College: “On Leanne Howe’s Miko Kings: An Indian
Baseball Story”
- R Dean Johnson, Eastern Kentucky
University: “All-Star Treatment”
- Gina Logue, Middle Tennessee State
University: “Hank Aaron:
My Childhood Hero”
11:40-12:05 Concurrent Sessions C
Session C1: “Negro League Baseball in Popular Culture”
Location: Hazlewood Chair:
- Will Boone, Winston-Salem State
University: “Black Babe Ruths: Major League Baseball, Hip Hop Icons,
and the Birth of the Uncool”
Session C2: “Creative Fiction I”
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair:
- Craig
Albin, Missouri State University: “Judgment Call”:
A Short Story
Session C3: “Winding Up…”
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
- Crosby
Hunt, Middle Tennessee State University:
“’If
your life is drab and empty and puerile and full of Phil Rizzuto’: On
Reading Ball Four Again for the Twenty- Third Time Forty-Three Years Later”
12:15-2:00
Luncheon and Jim Bouton Talk
Tennessee Room
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Jim
Bouton Talk (~20 min. talk + 10 min. Q&A)
Book Signing in James
Union Lobby to follow talk
2:00-3:00 Concurrent Sessions D
Session D2: Baseball
Creative Fiction II
Location: Dining
Rm. C Chair:
- Thomas Luckie, Butler
University: “Rain Delay”
- Steven Walker, Middle Tennessee
State University: “Civil War”
3:30-ish:
Informal Socializing @ The ‘Boro
6:00 PM: Sun
Belt Conference Baseball: MTSU Blue
Raiders vs. Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans
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