Windsor 2022

Schedule

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Saturday, November 12th

8:00 – 9:00Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:20Welcome and Announcements
9:20 – 9:50Stephen Dame: Coloured Diamonds: Integrated Baseball in the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 – 1918
9:50 – 10:20Jaclyn Meloche: Diversity Inside the Diamond
10:20 – 10:50Martin Lacoste: Du Pire au Premier (From Worst to First)
10:50 – 11:10Break
11:10 – 12:00Andrew North: Post-War Baseball in Saskatchewan: A Conversation with Delisle Gems Pitcher John Farley
12:00 – 1:00Lunch
1:00 – 1:30Max Weder: Canada’s Greatest Baseball Tournament
1:30 – 2:00

Ian Kennedy: Early Indigenous Teams and Players in Ontario.

Cancelled due to illness.

2:00 – 2:30Benno Rosinke: The Canadian League 1911 – 1915
2:30 – 3:00Break and Book Signing
3:00 – 3:30David Simmons: Harry Simmons, Major League Schedule Maker from 1952 to 1982
3:30 – 4:00Warren Campbell: The 1975 Intercontinental Cup in Moncton and Montreal
4:00 – 4:30Riley Nowokowski: Indoor Baseball in London, 1920

Sunday, November 13th

8:00 – 9:00Breakfast and Chit-Chat
9:00 – 9:30Christian Trudeau: The Montreal Crawfords? The Surprising Canadian Presence of the 1945-46 United States Negro League
9:30 – 10:00Robert K. Barney, Michael Greguol, Riley Nowokowski and Stephen Harding: Tecumseh/Labatt Memorial Park and the Quest for a National Heritage Site Designation
10:00 – 10:30Maxwell Kates: The Mayor Was a Salesman: Charles Bronfman and the Montreal Expos, 1969 – 1990
10:30 – 11:00Break
11:00 – 11:30David Siegel: The 1960 Toronto Maple Leafs
11:30 – 12:00Gary Gillette: So-Called Organized Baseball Abandons Canada
12:00 – 1:00Lunch
1:00 – 1:30Wayne Patterson: Jim Riley: The Major Leagues and a Stanley Cup
1:30 – 2:00Chip Martin: Jake Englehart
2:00Closing Remarks