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Pots & pans and bats & balls.(Essay)
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The Baseball Research Journal
- Article date:
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January 1, 2007
- Author:
- Thorn, John
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This essay is modified only slightly from the keynote speech delivered at the Ninth Annual Seymour Medal Conference, in Cleveland, April 27-29, 2007. The presentation theme of the conference was "How Did We Come to Understand the History of the Game?" The author took brief note of that theme and then shifted his gaze from the rear-view mirror to the road ahead.
Before entering upon my remarks, I would like to thank The Society for American Baseball Research for hosting this conference, the Cleveland Indians for sponsoring it, this year's five Seymour Medal nominees for making it necessary (Yogi, can ya hear me?), and Dorothy Seymour Mills and her late husband, Dr. Harold ...