St. Marys 2024

Schedule

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Saturday, November 2nd

8:00 – 9:00Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:20Welcome and Announcements
9:20 – 10:20Larry Gerlach: It’s About Time: Bob Emslie Belongs in Cooperstown
10:20 – 10:35Break
10:35 – 11:10Stephen Dame: Ladies of the Night Game: A history of baseball under the lights in Toronto
11:10 – 11:45Bill Humber: Baseball’s Two-State Creation
11:45 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 2:00Heidi Jacobs: Fred Thomas’ Baseball Story
2:00 – 2:30Warren Campbell: The Border League (1946-1951) Story of the Ottawa Nationals and Kingston Ponies
2:30 – 3:00Martin Lacoste: Into the Woods
3:00 – 3:30Break
3:30 – 4:00Christian Trudeau: Quebec Baseball and the Great Depression: The Dow Brewery to the Rescue
4:00 – 4:30Allen Tait: Roark Park: An Extreme Ballpark Effect

Sunday, November 3rd

8:00 – 9:15Breakfast and Coffee
9:15 – 9:45Max Weder: The 1913 Saskatoon Quakers and the Violation of the Salary Cap in the Western Canada League
9:45 – 10:15David Siegel and Bill Park: Identifying the Disposition of a Minor League Team: Comparing the 1964 and 1965 Toronto Maple Leafs
10:15 – 10:45Break
10:45 – 11:15Logan Habel: Home and Away: Canadian Baseball in the Second World War
11:15 – 11:45Riley Nowokowski and Robert Barney: Danger Signs: The Imperiled Conditions of Tecumseh (Labatt) Park in 1920s London
11:45 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 2:00Matt Simpson:  Collecting the Northern Hall: Pre-War Canadian Content in the Hobby the Defined our Childhoods
2:00 – 2:30Fred Toulch: Baseball and Tobacco in Canada
2:30 – 3:00Break
3:00 – 3:30David Matchett: From a Canadian Researcher’s Notebook Part III
3:30 – 4:00Paul Cano: A Musical Tour of Canadian Baseball
4:00Closing Remarks