NINE 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.
16th
ANNUAL SPRING TRAINING CONFERENCE on the Historical and Sociological Impact of
Baseball
March 12-15, 2009
Clarion Hotel Tucson Airport--Tucson, Arizona
The conference will have limited registration and include
morning sessions, a Saturday evening banquet, and opportunities for afternoon
field research.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The 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unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis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, 2008, to:
NINE Spring Training Conference, c/o Trey
Strecker, Department of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 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
Conference Program and accepted abstracts may be found at http://tstrecker.iweb.bsu.edu/nine2009program.htm
Keynote Speaker: PETER
MORRIS, author of Baseball Fever: Early
Baseball in Michigan, A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations that
Shaped Baseball, Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers
Shaped Baseball, and Didn’t We Have
Fun? The Pioneer Age of Baseball
Featured Guest: ARNOLD
HANO, author of A Day in the Bleachers
and numerous articles, anthologies, and books on baseball, labor, and other
subjects.
IN MEMORIAM,
BILL KIRWIN, FOUNDING EDITOR
Kirwin, Dr. William John (Bill)
Oct. 3, 1937- Dec.11, 2007
Bill died peacefully with both his daughters at his side, after a remarkable
yearlong battle with brain cancer. Bill was an extremely complex, bright,
talented, innovative and accomplished man. In addition to generously
sharing his immense love with so many, he also inspired others to "think
outside of the box," creating new possibilities and realities, enriching
meaningful connections and relationships between thousands of people across
the globe. A celebrated athlete, an exemplary teacher and role model, the
founding editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
a Professor Emeritus, and a uniquely wonderful human being, Bill Kirwin will be
remembered and cherished in the hearts of every life he touched and live
forever in our collective loving spirit.
Bill is survived by his wife Wendy, daughters Jannette (Patrick) and Suzanne,
granddaughter Sydney, step-daughter Kelli (Tim), granddaughter Meagan,
sister-in-law, Sandy Kirwin (Cindy (Jim), Pam (Mark), Koby (LeeAnn)), and
nieces and nephews Jimmy, Ben, Katie, Nicholas, Kat, Meg and Shae, and
literally hundreds of close friends in Canada, the US and around the world.
He is predeceased by his brother Jim, his parents, Catherine and Myron,
and his stepson Clayton.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to:
The Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Attention: Bill Kirwin Scholarship Fund
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada
For details on the scholarship contact: kbradley@ucalgary.ca