Excerpts of Today's Agenda at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame today begins its 2009 Cooperstown Symposium.

These are some of the speakers. (NOTE: WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP.)

Alexander Sanders, Charleston School of Law: "William S. Stevens (194802008) and "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule"

Charles DeMotte, Onondaga Community College: "The Legislative Battle for Sunday Baseball in New York During the Progressive Age."

Beth Hise, Marylebone Cricket Club Museum, London, England: "The Crowd Began to Shout "Atta Boy" with a Lancashire Accent: The English Response to Baseball Exhibition Games in the Early 20th Century."

(REPEATING: WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP.)

Elizabeth O'Connell, State University of New York - Stony Brook: "Gods of the Diamond, Heroes of the Republic: Baseball, Manhood and American Culture, 1946-1963"

Michael Civille, Boston College: "A Simple Plan: A.G. Spaulding's 'America's National Game' as an Allegory for the Reordering of American Hierarchies in 1911."

(AND OUR FAVORITE, CAN'T MISS DISCUSSION:)

Mitchell Nathanson, Villanova University School of Law: "Reading Judge Landis: How His Published Court Rulings Foretold the Actions of Baseball's First Commissioner."