St. Marys 2026
Schedule
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Saturday, November 7th
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and Announcements |
| 9:15 – 10:15 | Keynote Address Colin Howell: An Ecology of Baseball in the Northern Borderlands: Measuring Competition and Understanding Opportunity |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break |
| Toronto Maple Leafs Session | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Jim Easton: Toronto Base Ball Club 1895 – 1897: A Prelude for Bill Dinneen and 41 Years in the Major Leagues |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Mackenzie Longpré: Charlie White, Leon Day, and a Groundbreaking Summer in Toronto: The Integration Story of the International League Maple Leafs |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | William Humber: Elston Howard: Best Ever Here? |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Benno Rosinke: Keep Calm and Muddle Through: How the Inter-County League Survived the Hardships of WWII |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Paul Allen: Fergie in Chatham |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Joe Marren: Bo May Have Known Football and Baseball, But He Couldn’t Skate |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Andrew Forbes: Spoke, Peck, and the Greatest Game Ever Played in Peterborough |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 – 5:15 | Panel Discussion Cross-Country Check-Up: A wide-ranging discussion of the long-term trends, specific events, and influential participants who shaped baseball’s historical development in Canada’s various regions. West Coast: Tom Hawthorn Play video (1:26:00) |
Sunday, November 8th
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast and Coffee |
| Nineteenth Century Session | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Justin Mckinney: Base-Ballists Arrested: The London, Ontario Theft Case Against Billy Geer and Harry Luff |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | DM Fox: Did Harry Decker Really Exist, or was he the Work of a 19th-Century Opium-Addicted Short Story Writer? |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Avi Hyman, Samuel Shuster-Hyman and Caleb Shuster-Hyman: Analyzing the Effectiveness of GenAI as a Research Tool for the Study of Canadian Baseball History |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Max Weder: The Saskatoon Gems, the North Battleford Beavers and the Edmonton Eskimos: Canada at the Global World Series 1955-1957 |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Arturo Marcano: The Important Relationship Between Cardenales de Lara and the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Bill Sproule: The House of David Baseball Team and Their Canadian Tours |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Matt Simpson: Collecting the Northern Hall: Canadian Content in the Hobby that Defined our Childhoods in the Junk Wax Era |
| 12:45 | Closing Remarks |