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Friday, April 1, 2011
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Baseball in Literature and Culture 2011
It's almost that time again, no foolin'*... won't need travel money from the Dean for this one.
Agenda for 16th Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Middle Tennessee State University
*Friday, April 1, 2011*
7.45-8.15 Registration and Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Welcome:
Warren Tormey, Conference Coordinator
Dr. Mark Byrnes, Dean, College of Liberal Arts
8.30-9.15 Keynote Address:
Dr. Stephen Andrews, Grinnell College:
“Suicide Squeeze: Immigration and the Art of Stealing Home.”
9.20-10.20 Concurrent Sessions A
Session A1: Baseball in Asian Contexts
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Janaka Bowman-Lewis
Po-hsi Chen, National Central University, Taiwan: “’Don’t Mention (Them) Again!’: Cultural Representations of Professional Baseball Game-fixing Scandals in Taiwan”
Michael Pagel, Middle Tennessee State University: “A Hole in His Swing: An American Baseball Player in the Japanese National Game”
Kang-hun (Brett) Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan: “Baseball and the Immigrants in Three Asian-American Novels”
Session A2: Baseball as Literary Symbol
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Bob Barrier
Don Johnson, East Tennessee State University: “Richard Ford's Knuckler: Conflicting Attitudes Toward Baseball in the Frank Bascomb Trilogy."
Nathan Valle, Liberty University: "The Gentle Player: Baseball as American Imperialism in the Works of Irwin Shaw."
Craig Albin, Missouri State University-West Plains: “Selling the Dream in Walt McDonald’s Poem ‘The Pee Wee Coach.’”
Session A3: Baseball in Popular Culture and Fiction
Location: Tennessee Room Chair: Bob Johnson
Peggy Beck, Kent State University-Stark: “Pressbox Populations and Paradigm Shifts: Practicing Media Relations in a Culture of Media Change
Jeremy Larance, West Liberty State University: “"The Shocking and True Story of the Best Baseball Novel Ever Written [by a Woman]."
Carl Schinasi, Miles College: “The Paradox of Class in Zane Grey’s Baseball Fictions”
10.30-11.30 Concurrent Sessions B
Session B1: Baseball and African-American Literature and Culture
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Carl Schinasi
Michael Polley, Columbia College of Missouri: “Searching for Satchel Paige: A Tale of Two Autobiographies”
Dan Anderson, Dominican University: “’Champions of a Nobler Plan’: Pitcher/Poet Andy Razaf’s Challenge to Segregated Baseball in the Harlem Renaissance”
Janaka Bowman-Lewis, University of North Carolina-Charlotte: “Black Baseball and the Respectability Project”
Session B2: Reading Baseball Ballparks
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Peggy Beck
Matthew Bruen, New York University: “The Myth of the American Ballpark: Class Division, Economics, and Diversity in Baseball Stadiums."
Gary Mitchum, McFarland & Company, Inc.: “An Update on McFarland’s Historic Ballparks Series”
Bob Barrier, Kennesaw State University: "130 Years of Scoreboard Watching: Scoreboards for Information, Entertainment, and Commerce."
11.40-12.05 Concurrent Sessions C: Baseball Table Talks
Location: Tennessee Room Chair: Ron Kates
Table 1: Crosby Hunt, Middle Tennessee State University: “Rube Waddell, Al Pacino, What’s the Difference?”
Table 2: Warren Tormey, Middle Tennessee State University: “How Short Porches Saved the Game: Ballpark (Re)Configuration in the 1920's and 1990's”
Table 3: Tom Veve: Dalton State College: “When the Yankees Should Have Owned Gotham, or, The Origins of Baseball's Thirty Years War”
Table 4: Jim Blackstock, Cleveland, OH: "I Would Have Liked to Know You, But I Was Just a Kid. Your Candle(s) Burned Out Long Before Your Legend(s) Ever Did: Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe in American and Baseball Culture"
12.15-1.45 Luncheon and Jim Rooker Talk
Tennessee Room
12.15-12.45 Lunch
12.45-1.30 Jim Rooker (20 min + ~10 min. Q & A; Book Signing to follow)
1:50-2:50 Concurrent Sessions D
Session D1: Baseball Fiction I
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Craig Albin
Steven Walker, Middle Tennessee State University: “The Bull Dancer”
Phil Oliver, Middle Tennessee State University: “The Short and Incredible Career of Sidd Finch, Zen and Now”
Session D2: Baseball Myth and Illusion
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Dan Anderson
Kevin Grace, University of Cincinnati: “What Ring Lardner Learned Me to Read: The Imaginary Library of Jack Keefe”
Jerry Wood, Carson-Newman College: “Smoky Joe Wood: The Legend that Wouldn’t Die”
Andy Hazucha: Ottawa University: “May 13, 1947, Crosley Field: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and the Phantom Embrace”
3:00-4:00 Concurrent Sessions E
Session E1: Baseball in Philosophical and Ethical Contexts
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Warren Tormey
Nick Bush, Motlow State College: “The Tao of Mike: the Psychology & Philosophy Behind Michael Jordan's Season with the Birmingham Barons"
Ron Bombardi, Middle Tennessee State University: “Baseball, Ballet, and Botox: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Doping”
Session E2: Baseball Fiction II
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Kevin Grace
Bob Johnson, Eastern Kentucky University: “Press”
Denise Heinze, North Carolina State University: “Trick”
4:30 ish—Informal socializing, “The Boro”
6:00 Sun Belt Conference Baseball: MTSU vs. South Alabama, Reese Smith Field
Agenda for 16th Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Middle Tennessee State University
*Friday, April 1, 2011*
7.45-8.15 Registration and Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Welcome:
Warren Tormey, Conference Coordinator
Dr. Mark Byrnes, Dean, College of Liberal Arts
8.30-9.15 Keynote Address:
Dr. Stephen Andrews, Grinnell College:
“Suicide Squeeze: Immigration and the Art of Stealing Home.”
9.20-10.20 Concurrent Sessions A
Session A1: Baseball in Asian Contexts
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Janaka Bowman-Lewis
Po-hsi Chen, National Central University, Taiwan: “’Don’t Mention (Them) Again!’: Cultural Representations of Professional Baseball Game-fixing Scandals in Taiwan”
Michael Pagel, Middle Tennessee State University: “A Hole in His Swing: An American Baseball Player in the Japanese National Game”
Kang-hun (Brett) Chang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan: “Baseball and the Immigrants in Three Asian-American Novels”
Session A2: Baseball as Literary Symbol
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Bob Barrier
Don Johnson, East Tennessee State University: “Richard Ford's Knuckler: Conflicting Attitudes Toward Baseball in the Frank Bascomb Trilogy."
Nathan Valle, Liberty University: "The Gentle Player: Baseball as American Imperialism in the Works of Irwin Shaw."
Craig Albin, Missouri State University-West Plains: “Selling the Dream in Walt McDonald’s Poem ‘The Pee Wee Coach.’”
Session A3: Baseball in Popular Culture and Fiction
Location: Tennessee Room Chair: Bob Johnson
Peggy Beck, Kent State University-Stark: “Pressbox Populations and Paradigm Shifts: Practicing Media Relations in a Culture of Media Change
Jeremy Larance, West Liberty State University: “"The Shocking and True Story of the Best Baseball Novel Ever Written [by a Woman]."
Carl Schinasi, Miles College: “The Paradox of Class in Zane Grey’s Baseball Fictions”
10.30-11.30 Concurrent Sessions B
Session B1: Baseball and African-American Literature and Culture
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Carl Schinasi
Michael Polley, Columbia College of Missouri: “Searching for Satchel Paige: A Tale of Two Autobiographies”
Dan Anderson, Dominican University: “’Champions of a Nobler Plan’: Pitcher/Poet Andy Razaf’s Challenge to Segregated Baseball in the Harlem Renaissance”
Janaka Bowman-Lewis, University of North Carolina-Charlotte: “Black Baseball and the Respectability Project”
Session B2: Reading Baseball Ballparks
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Peggy Beck
Matthew Bruen, New York University: “The Myth of the American Ballpark: Class Division, Economics, and Diversity in Baseball Stadiums."
Gary Mitchum, McFarland & Company, Inc.: “An Update on McFarland’s Historic Ballparks Series”
Bob Barrier, Kennesaw State University: "130 Years of Scoreboard Watching: Scoreboards for Information, Entertainment, and Commerce."
11.40-12.05 Concurrent Sessions C: Baseball Table Talks
Location: Tennessee Room Chair: Ron Kates
Table 1: Crosby Hunt, Middle Tennessee State University: “Rube Waddell, Al Pacino, What’s the Difference?”
Table 2: Warren Tormey, Middle Tennessee State University: “How Short Porches Saved the Game: Ballpark (Re)Configuration in the 1920's and 1990's”
Table 3: Tom Veve: Dalton State College: “When the Yankees Should Have Owned Gotham, or, The Origins of Baseball's Thirty Years War”
Table 4: Jim Blackstock, Cleveland, OH: "I Would Have Liked to Know You, But I Was Just a Kid. Your Candle(s) Burned Out Long Before Your Legend(s) Ever Did: Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe in American and Baseball Culture"
12.15-1.45 Luncheon and Jim Rooker Talk
Tennessee Room
12.45-1.30 Jim Rooker (20 min + ~10 min. Q & A; Book Signing to follow)
1:50-2:50 Concurrent Sessions D
Session D1: Baseball Fiction I
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Craig Albin
Steven Walker, Middle Tennessee State University: “The Bull Dancer”
Session D2: Baseball Myth and Illusion
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Dan Anderson
Kevin Grace, University of Cincinnati: “What Ring Lardner Learned Me to Read: The Imaginary Library of Jack Keefe”
Jerry Wood, Carson-Newman College: “Smoky Joe Wood: The Legend that Wouldn’t Die”
Andy Hazucha: Ottawa University: “May 13, 1947, Crosley Field: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and the Phantom Embrace”
3:00-4:00 Concurrent Sessions E
Session E1: Baseball in Philosophical and Ethical Contexts
Location: Hazlewood Chair: Warren Tormey
Nick Bush, Motlow State College: “The Tao of Mike: the Psychology & Philosophy Behind Michael Jordan's Season with the Birmingham Barons"
Ron Bombardi, Middle Tennessee State University: “Baseball, Ballet, and Botox: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Doping”
Session E2: Baseball Fiction II
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair: Kevin Grace
Bob Johnson, Eastern Kentucky University: “Press”
Denise Heinze, North Carolina State University: “Trick”
4:30 ish—Informal socializing, “The Boro”
6:00 Sun Belt Conference Baseball: MTSU vs. South Alabama, Reese Smith Field
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