St. Marys 2017

Schedule

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8:00 – 9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome and Special Announcement
9:15 – 9:45	Stephen Dame: Batted Balls and Bayonets: Baseball and the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918
9:45 – 10:15	Miriam Wright, Heidi Jacobs, Dave Johnston: Researching Early Canadian Baseball: “Boomer” Harding & the Chatham Coloured All-Stars
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:00	David Matchett: What is a Canadian?
11:00 – 12:00	Panel discussion: What is a Canadian? Panelists: Bill Humber, Scott Crawford (for Larry Millson) Moderator: David Matchett
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:30	Bill Humber: Canadians Inventing Baseball: Port Hope’s Bob Addy
1:30 – 2:00	Fred Toulch: Montreal Royals Vignettes
2:00 – 3:00	Michael Murray: Canadian Baseball: A Pictorial Quiz (Answers here)
3:00 – 3:15	Break
3:15 – 3:45	Jerry Amernic: Babe Ruth’s Canadian Connections
3:45 – 4:30	Robert K. Barney and Barbara Weis: A Further Nail in the Coffin of the Doubleday Myth: Johann Christoff Friedrich Guts Muths and the Diffusion of ‘Base-Ball’ to Europe, pre-1796

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast and Chit-Chat
9:00 – 9:30	John Cairney: A brief history of the 3-pitch inning in Major League Baseball
9:30 – 10:00	Bill Young: Redemption: Baseball’s Mexican Jumpers, Quebec and the Reserve Clause
10:00 – 10:30	Chip Martin: The Winning Ways of William Watkins
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:15	Martin Lacoste: The Drive of ‘85 – The 1885 Canadian League
11:15 – 12:15	Warren Campbell: Baseball and Entertainment