Toronto 2023
Schedule
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Saturday, November 4th
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and Announcements |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Stephen Dame: Softball and Swastikas: The Riot at Christie Pits |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | David Siegel: The Toronto Maple Leafs — The Barrow Years 1900 – 1902 |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | David Simmons: So You Think You Know Baseball |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Bill Humber: …and the Cheese Sailed for Europe |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Benno Rosinke: Canadian League Alumni |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Paul Allen: Negro League Players’ Impact on the Intercounty Baseball League |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Break and Book Signing |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | David McDonald: Marshall McLuhan and the Death of Baseball |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Wayne Patterson: Cradle of Canadians in Major League Baseball |
| 4:00 – 4:15 | Brad Spencer: Home Plate: Labatt Memorial Park |
Sunday, November 5th
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast and Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Martin Lacoste: The Odd Couple: Two Very Different Border League Hall-of-Famers |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Andrew North: Beachville Revisited |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Bill Park: Not Quite Showtime |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Robyn Jensen: When Racial Spikes were Sharp, Competition for Prize Money Intense and Tempers Short: An Analysis of Western Canada Semi-pro Baseball in the Fifties and the 1952 Rosetown Riot in Particular [Video] |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Dennis Thiessen: The Telegraph, World Series, and Canadian Baseball Fans, 1910 – 1930 |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Doug Fox: Chick Hafey Visits Port McNicoll |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Jim Hostetler and Bob Axon: The Story of Canadian Baseball Bats |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | David Matchett: From a Canadian Researcher’s Notebook |
| 3:30 | Closing Remarks |