SABR 19th Century Baseball Speaker Series
SABR’s Ninteenth Century Committee is excited to announce a monthly series of virtual research presentations via Zoom. All baseball fans are welcome to attend.
The 19cBB Speaker Series will initially consist of research presentations presented at the Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference (“The Fred”). These informative talks will be re-presented each second Tuesday of the month beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. They will run for one hour.
Upcoming presentations
Find details and Zoom registration links for all upcoming presentations in the SABR 19th Century Baseball Speaker Series below:
2025-26 presentations
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- September 9, 2025: Tom Delise and Jay Seaborg, “The 1890s Baltimore Orioles and the Scientific Base Ball Controversy”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - October 14: Justin Mckinney, “Atlantic Sinking: The Brooklyn Atlantics of 1870-1875”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - November 11: Steve Rennie, “Whalers At Bat: Baseball on Ice in the 19th Century Canadian Arctic”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - December 9: Peter Goldstein, “Season on the Stink: Replaying the 1899 Cleveland Spiders Season with Strat-o-matic”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - January 13, 2026: Jack Bales, “The Original ‘Mr. Cub’: The Life and Unfortunate Times of Jimmy Wood”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - February 10: Vincent T. Ciaramella, “Two Short Weeks Under the Sun: The Pittsburgh Keystones and the National Colored Base Ball League of 1887”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - March 10: Bruce Allardice, “Chicago’s First Champions: The White Stockings of 1870”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - April 14: Peter Gordon, “King Kelly: Baseball’s First Matinee Idol”
(Click here to pre-register on Zoom) - May 12: Patrick Stewart, “Discovering Ace Stewart”
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Earlier presentations
Click below to watch a replay of all presentations from our speaker series events on YouTube:
2024-25 presentations
Click below to watch video replays of any Speaker Series presentations on YouTube:
- September 10, 2024: Bill Felber, “Characters of 1897”
(Click here to view Bill’s slides) - October 22: Justin Mckinney, “Tracking Jack Farrell”
(Click here to view Justin’s slides) - November 12: Bill Humber, “Baseball Goes International“
- December 10: Vincent Ciaramella, “Who Was Charlie Fisher?”
(Click here to view Vincent’s slides) - January 14, 2025: Jack Bales, “Turkey For Himself, and Buzzard For the Other Clubs: How William Hulbert Abused His Power to Get What He Wanted”
(Click here to view Jack’s slides) - February 11: Jeff Orens, “Baseball Through the Intertwining Lives of George Wright and Albert Spalding“
(Click here to view Jeff’s slides) - March 11: Terry Bohn, “The Sad Tale of Dapper Dan Lally”
- April 8: Kevin Doyle, “US Navy Baseball, 1864-1910”
(Click here to view Kevin’s slides) - May 13: Tim Newby, “The Original Louisville Slugger: The Llife and Times of Forgotten Baseball Legend Pete Browning“
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2023-24
- September 12, 2023: Bill Humber, “An Unheralded Ancestry: Baseball’s Missing Chapter”
(Click here to view Bill’s slides or to read his accompanying sidebar article) - October 10, 2023: Jack Bales, “The Mysterious Lewis Meacham: The Untold Story of William Hulbert’s Right-Hand Man”
(Click here to view Jack’s slides) - November 14, 2023: Justin Mckinney, “The 1890 Philadelphia Athletics: How a Pennant Contender Became the Worst Team of All Time”
(Click here to view Justin’s slides) - December 12, 2023: Gregory H. Wolf, “Bill Hutchison: A Forgotten Star Standing 55 1/2 Feet from Home Plate”
(Click here to view Gregory’s slides) - January 9, 2024: Tom Gilbert, “Amateurism, True Crime, and Baseball”
(Click here to view Tom’s slides) - February 13, 2024: Matt Albertson, “The Scorecard Vote: A Fan’s View of the 1895 Philadelphia Phillies”
(Click here to view Matt’s slides) - March 12, 2024: Paul Browne, “Hustling Dan O’Leary”
(Click here to view Paul’s slides) - April 9, 2024: Elena Dugan, “In Spite of His Color, He is Captain of the Baseball Nine This Year”
(Click here to view Elena’s slides) - May 14, 2024: Vincent Ciaramella, “Death by Drinking Seawater: The Short Tragic Life and Career of Tom O’Brien”
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2022-23
- September 13, 2022: Justin Mckinney, “The Union Association’s 10 Biggest Mistakes”
(click here to view Justin’s PowerPoint slides) - October 11, 2022: Gary Gillette, “True Triple Crowns of the 19th Century”
(click here to view Gary’s PowerPoint slides) - November 8, 2022: Jack Bales, “Beer Beats Them: The Chicago White Stockings 1886 Season and the End of a Base Ball Dynasty”
(click here to view Jack’s PowerPoint slides) - December 13, 2022: Dan Linnenberg, “Long John Reilly: Ballplayer and Artist”
(click here to view Dan’s PowerPoint slides) - January 10, 2023: Jonathan Popovich, “Elysian Fields”
(click here to view Jonathan’s PowerPoint slides) - February 14, 2023: Thomas Gilbert, “Baseball’s Man in Philadelphia, Col. Tom Fitzgerald”
(click here to view Thomas’s PowerPoint slides) - March 14, 2023: Paul Browne, “The Douglasses, the Cattos and the Age of Hope for Blacks in Base Ball”
(click here to view Paul’s PowerPoint slides) - April 11, 2023: Bob Bailey, “A Tale of Two Seasons: 1889-1890 Louisville Baseball”
(click here to view Bob’s PowerPoint slides) - May 9, 2023: John Pregler, “Dubuque: An Early Cradle of Baseball History”
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2021-22
- September 14, 2021: Bruce Allardice, “Baseball in the Wild West”
(click here to view Bruce’s PowerPoint slides) - October 12: Michael Haupert, “William Hulbert and the Birth of the National League”
(click here to view Michael’s PowerPoint slides) - November 9: Lawrence Phillips, “Early Baseball in Cincinnati”
(click here to view Larry’s PowerPoint slides) - December 14: Rob Bauer, “The Terminal Decline of the American Association”
(click here to view Rob’s PowerPoint slides) - January 11, 2022: Alan Cohen, “Never on a Sunday: Baseball’s Battles with the Blue Laws“
(click here to view Alan’s PowerPoint slides) - February 8: Monica Nucciarone, “Alexander Cartwright’s Life and Baseball Legacy”
(click here to view Monica’s PowerPoint slides) - March 8: Dennis Thiessen, “Tip O’Neill: Champion Batsman in 1887”
(click here to view Dennis’s PowerPoint slides) - April 12: Terry Bohn, “Baseball in the Black Hills”
(click here to view Terry’s PowerPoint slides) - May 10: Eric Frost, “Arthur Irwin: The Crazy Life and Crazier Death of a Forty-Year Baseball Man”
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2020-21
- October 13, 2020: Jon Popovich, “Boots, Saddles & Baseballs: Major Benteen at the Little Big Horn”
(click here to view Jon’s PowerPoint slides) - November 10: Joanne Hulbert, “I Never Thought I’d Miss ‘Tricky Nick’: 19th-Century Nicknames”
(click here to view Joanne’s PowerPoint slides) - December 8: Bill Humber, “A Thoroughly Modern Ballplayer: The Imaginative, Illicit and Improbable Life of Bob Addy”
(click here to view Bill’s PowerPoint slides) - January 12, 2021: Tom Shieber: “Around the World with A.G. Spalding: The Mystery of an 1888-89 Tourist’s Diary”
(click here to view Tom’s PowerPoint slides) - February 9: Donald Jensen, “Baseball Fans Must Eat: The Life & Times of Harry Stevens, Hot Dog King”
(click here to view Don’s PowerPoint slides) - March 9: Jerry Casway, “Before Greenberg there was (Lipman) Pike”
(click here to view Jerry’s PowerPoint slides) - April 13: Chip Martin, “Kidnapping Their Way to Glory: The Detroit Wolverines”
(click here to view Chip’s PowerPoint slides) - May 11: Bob Bailey, “Jack Chapman: A Nineteenth Century Baseball Life”
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