2024 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference

2024 Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference highlights

The 24th annual SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference was held from June 6-9, 2024, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

Click on a link below to watch a video replay of each session.


Thursday, June 6

Dan Nathan, “The Negro League Renaissance: Prelude to a Conversation”

(Link: YouTube)

Karl Lindholm, “The Many Fronts of Baseball’s Integration: 1946”

(Link: YouTube)

Clem Hamilton, “Roster Management and On-Field Success in the First Negro National League”

(Link: YouTube)

Keith Crook, “Colonel Jacob Ruppert: Race Profiteer or Race Pioneer?”

(Link: YouTube)

Frank Harte, “Thriving During the Depression: The Shared History of Black Baseball and Jazz in Kansas City during the 1930s”

(Link: YouTube)


Friday, June 7

Paul Julion, “John Donaldson: Baseball Lifer”

(Link: YouTube)

Ted Knorr, “Rap Dixon for the Hall of Fame”

(Link: YouTube)

Tim Hagerty, “Dick ‘Cannonball’ Redding”

(Link: YouTube)

Clarence Gordon Jr., “Does Baseball Matter? An Examination of the Purported Decline in African American Participation in Baseball”

(Link: YouTube)

Alan Cohen, “Josh Gibson Blazes a Trail Through Big League Ballparks: 1930-1946”

(Link: YouTube)

Jon Volkmer, “Gandy Dancers vs. Hornets, Pick-up Game of the Century”

(Link: YouTube)

Brian Sheehy, “Bud Fowler in Massachusetts”

(Link: YouTube)

Alex Painter, “Bud Fowler and the Overlooked 1902 Indianapolis Colored Baseball League”

(Link: YouTube)

Max Martinez Almenas, “Legacy at Play: The Martinez Brothers’ Imprint on Baseball History”

(Link: YouTube)

JB Martin IV, “JB Martin and the Memphis Red Sox”

(Link: YouTube)

Mark Armour, “The Long Road to Induct Satchel Paige”

(Link: YouTube)

Matt Jacob, “Downplaying Racism in 1938: How MLB Officials and Sportswriters Failed to Meet the Moment of Jake Powell’s Racial Slur”

(Link: YouTube)


Saturday, June 8

Paul Julion, “Retire the Names, Install the Plaques, and Fly the Flags”

(Link: YouTube)

Lisa Doris Alexander, “Black Baseball in ‘A League of Their Own’ Series”

(Link: YouTube)

Missy Booker, “You Don’t Have to Cry for Satchel Paige Today”

(Link: YouTube)

The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball Exhibit Panel, with Tom Shieber, Mary Quinn, and Cassidy Lent

(Link: YouTube)

Rich Puerzer, “The Laughlin Negro League Baseball Card Sets”

(Link: YouTube)

Steven Greenes, “Negro League Baseball Cards and Memorabilia as a Roadmap to History”

(Link: YouTube)

Gary Gillette, “Midsummer Showcases in Black and White: Comparing East-West Games”

(Link: YouTube)

Larry McGill, “Piecing Together the 1920 Kansas City Monarchs Season Using Newspapers.com”

(Link: YouTube)

Robert Fitzpatrick, “The 1929 Baltimore Black Sox”

(Link: YouTube)

Visit SABR.org/malloy to go back to the Malloy Conference page.