Today, March 4, through Friday, March 6, UNP will be at the 33nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference!

The Spring Training Conference is a multi-disciplinary academic conference, featuring presentations on a wide range of baseball topics, including history, analytics, law, media analysis, literature, architecture, cultural studies, rhetoric, and more.

Senior Acquisitions Editor Rob Taylor will be in attendance alongside a number of UNP authors such as Steve Gietschier, Robert K. Fitts, Dave Bohmer, Jason Cannon, and more.

Wednesday, March 4: The CY Seymore Lead-Off Season

7:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. Robert Fitts, author of In the Japanese Ballpark, Mashi, Banzai Babe Ruth, Issei Baseball, and Wally Yonmine, to participate in “From San Francisco to Tokyo: A Celebration of Lefty O’Doul and Asian Baseball History and Culture” film screening and a panel discussion.

Thursday, March 5: UNP Author Presentations

10:00- 11:50 a.m. Mitch Nathanson, author of Under Jackie’s Shadow, to present “The Bobo Newsom Memorial Society and the Creation of the ’62 Mets.”

Friday, March 6: UNP Author Presentations

10:00- 11:45 a.m. Dave Bohmer, author of Ford Frick, will join The Mickey Haefner Session and discuss “Why Cooperstown?”

3:35- 5:25 p.m. Steve Gietschier, author of Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years, will present “‘I Know of No Rule of Law’: Stan Musial. Walter O’Malley, and the Korean War’s Wage and Price Controls”

Saturday, March 7: UNP Author Presentations

8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m. Robert K. Fitts, author of In the Japanese Ballpark, shares “Behind the Scenes at a Japanese Ballpark.”

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