2025 SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Schedule
SABR’s Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference will be held on August 7-9, 2025, at the Galt House Hotel, 140 N. 4th Street in Louisville, Kentucky. All baseball fans are welcome to attend.
Thursday, August 7
- 9:00-9:30 a.m.: Welcome
- 9:30-11:30 a.m.: Education Forum conducted by Dr. Leslie Heaphy (Galt House)
- 12:00-1:00 p.m.: Lunch on your own
- 12:15-4:15 p.m.: Registration open (Galt House lobby)
- 1:30-4:30 p.m.: Visit to Louisville Slugger Museum (800 W. Main Street) and/or Muhammad Ali Center (144 N. 6th Street)
- 4:45-6:00 p.m.: Nashville Black Baseball film screening (Galt House)
- 6:30-8:30 p.m.: Meet and Greet at Roots 101 African American Museum (124 N. 1st Street), with presentation by author Gary Gillette (“Jerry Malloy Conference in Perspective”)
Friday, August 8
Panels and presentations will be held at the Galt House Hotel. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
- 8:30-9:00 a.m.: Coffee and Welcome
- 9:00-9:30 a.m.: Chris Jensen, “Black Baseball’s Long Tradition of Two-Way Players”
- 9:30-10:00 a.m.: Geri Driscoll, “Before the Wreckers: Bullet Rogan’s Baseball Feats in the Philippines”
- 10:00-10:15 a.m.: Break
- 10:15-11:15 a.m.: Special Presentation by poet Dorian Hairston
- 11:15-11:45 a.m.: Keith Wood, “Martin Stadium”
- 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Lunch on your own
- 1:00-1:30 p.m.: Clem Hamilton, “Urban Black Communities and Major League Black Baseball, 1910-1948”
- 1:30-2:00 p.m.: John Bauer, “1947 Omaha Rockets”
- 2:00-2:45 p.m.: Presentations on Cleveland Buckeyes
- 2:45-3:00 p.m.: Break
- 3:00-4:00 p.m.: Film screening of Cleveland Buckeyes documentary
- 5:00-10:00 p.m.: Louisville Bats ballgame with dinner included at Louisville Slugger Field (401 E. Main Street)
Saturday, August 9
Panels and presentations will be held at the Galt House Hotel. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.
- 8:30-9:00 a.m.: Coffee and Welcome
- 9:00-9:30 a.m.: Chris Betsch, “It Took a Cuban Connection to Integrate the Louisville Colonels”
- 9:30-10:00 a.m.: Rich Bogovich, “Classifying the NAL After 1948: The 1954 Louisville Clippers as a Case Study”
- 10:00-10:30 a.m.: Robert B. Fitzpatrick, “Negro Baseball in Louisville”
- 10:30-10:45 a.m.: Break
- 10:45-11:45 a.m.: Louisville Baseball History Panel, with Harry Rothgerber and Anne Jewell
- 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.: Lunch on your own
- 1:15-1:45 p.m.: Larry McGill, “’Newspaper Men to Decide All Questions’: How Three Pathbreaking Black Journalists Co-Created the NNL”
- 1:45-2:15 p.m.: Alex Khalifa, “John Beckwith”
- 2:15-2:45 p.m.: Matt Jacob, “The Baseball Odyssey of Harold ‘Yellowhorse’ Morris”
- 2:45-3:00 p.m.: Break
- 3:00-3:30 p.m.: Max Almenas, “The Rabbit Effect: Horacio Martínez and the Hidden Link Between the Negro Leagues and Baseball’s Dominican Revolution”
- 3:30-4:00 p.m.: Paul Spyhalski, “Elston Howard’s 1951 Semi-Professional Baseball Season in Wisconsin”
- 4:15-5:00 p.m.: Significa Contest preliminaries
- 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Reception and cash bar
- 6:30-9:30 p.m.: Awards Banquet, plus silent/live auctions, Significa Contest finals, and entertainment
Sunday, August 10
Optional Events
- Sammy T. Hughes grave marker dedication ceremony, Louisville Cemetery (1339 Poplar Level Road)
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