St. Marys 2025

Schedule

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8:00 – 9:00	Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome and Announcements
9:15 – 9:45	Dennis Thiessen: “What Constitutes an Amateur Baseballist?” A Challenge for the Canadian Association of Amateur Base Ball Players in 1880
9:45 – 10:15	Arthur Lierman and Robert K. Barney: “The Canadian Baseball Gardens”: The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Marys, Ontario
10:15 – 10:30	Break
	Toronto Session
10:30 – 11:00	Bill Park: Diamond Park: The Maple Leafs’ Forgotten Ballpark
11:00 – 11:30	David Siegel: J.J. McCaffery and the Toronto Maple Leafs: Canada’s First Baseball Entrepreneur
11:30 – 12:00	Mackenzie Longpre: From Leafs to Jays: Rico Carty, Phil Roof, and a Trip Through Toronto’s Baseball History
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:00	Benno Rosinke: The 1899 Canadian Baseball League: A League That Could Have, Would Have and Should Have, But Didn’t
2:00 – 2:30	Christian Trudeau: Brooklyn vs. Canada: International Junior Competitions in the 1940s and 1950s
2:30 – 3:00	Justin Mckinney: Digging for ‘Spud’: Tracking Missing Canadians in Major League Record Books
3:00 – 3:30	Break
	Collectors’ Session
3:30 – 4:00	Maxwell Kates: Canadian Baseball Antiques Roadshow
4:00 – 4:30	Mike Dove: Building Connections and Collections: O-Pee-Chee’s Cultural Impact on Baseball in Canada
4:30 – 5:00	Matt Simpson: Collecting the Northern Hall: Vintage Canadian Content in the Hobby that Defined our Childhoods

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15	Bob Barney: Update on National Heritage Designation for Labatt Park
9:15 – 9:45	Max Weder: They Weren’t Just Hockey Players: The Bentleys and Baseball on the Canadian Prairies in the 1940s and ’50s
9:45 – 10:15	Allen Tait: The Hamilton Franchise in the PONY League: A Cardinal in the Coal Mine?
10:15 – 10:45	Bill Sproule: The Edmund Fitzgerald and Baseball
10:45 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 11:30	Jim Shearon: Who was Better, Marchildon or Fowler?
11:30 – 12:00	Paul Cano: A Ballpark Tour of the Intercounty Baseball League
12:00 – 12:30	Chip Martin: Brother Matthias Boutilier: The Canadian who Shaped Babe Ruth
12:30	Closing Remarks