[For this year’s Thanksgiving series, I wanted to express thanks for a handful of opportunities I’ve had to connect with scholarly communities this Fall. Leading up to a special tribute to my two most important scholarly influences!]
As I’ve highlighted
many times in this space, my
current book project focuses on one of my favorite stories from American
history: that of the Celestials
baseball team and their tragic yet triumphant final game in 1881 San
Francisco. As a result of that focus I’ve started to learn a good bit more
about 19th
century baseball, but there’s so much more for to explore, and so I was
beyond excited to get to share my own thoughts and listen to many others at
this fall’s 9 Online Virtual
Baseball Conference. I also connected there with a wonderful high school
educator, historian, and public scholar, Brian
Sheehy from North Andover High School, with whom I look forward to many future
collaborations around American
history, sports histories, patriotism, and more. The best conferences offer
both immediate inspiration and ongoing conversations, and I found both at 9
Online and look forward to finding (and writing here about!) further
opportunities to connect to baseball and sports historians.
Next
Thanks-giving tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Communities
(or anything else) you’re thankful for this year?
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