NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture seeks to promote the study of all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the cultural implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played. The journal reflects an eclectic approach and does not foster a particular ideological bias. For more information about the journal, including submission guidelines, subscription information, and the current table of contents, please follow this link.
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture announces
The 17th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference
on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball
Wednesday, March 10-Saturday, March 13, 2010
Fiesta Resort Conference Center
2100 South Priest Drive
Tempe, Arizona
Call for Papers: The 17th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference invites original, unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by December 1, 2009, to:
NINE Spring Training Conference
c/o Trey Strecker
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306-0460
Email: tstrecker@bsu.edu
Email abstracts are preferred. Authors will be notified as quickly as possible whether their papers have been accepted. Authors are required to register for the conference and present their work in person. The 2010 conference program and accepted abstracts will be posted here on the NINE Web site in January 2010.
Information about conference and hotel registration is here.
The 2010 conference will feature Keynote Speaker Larry Dierker and Cy Seymour Lead-Off Speaker Marty Appel.
Larry Dierker pitched for the Houston Colt .45's, Houston Astros, and St. Louis Cardinals from 1964 to 1977. He broadcast Astros games from 1979 to 1996 and in 2004, and managed the Astros from 1997 to 2001, finishing in first place four times and earning the National League Manager of the Year Award in 1998. He is the author of This Ain't Brain Surgery: How to Win the Pennant Without Losing Your Mind and My Team: Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball.
Marty Appel is the president of Marty Appel Public Relations, and he was the New York Yankees Director of Public Relations from 1973 to 1977. He is the author of seventeen books, including Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike "King" Kelly and Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain.
