VBBA 2023 Conference
Dayton
March 31 - April 2, 2023
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Our next Zoom presentation will be by Bob Sampson to discuss major talking points in the game we all love.
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Swimming Up”stream”: Navigating the Waters of Digital Presence & Online Engagement with a Salmon by Katie Flapjack Baer
Join Katie “Flapjack” Baer of the Chicago Salmon for a dive into the vast digital venues available to your VBBA club. Katie will doggy paddle through the basics of social media platforms, generating attention-grabbing content, increasing online engagement, and creating and maintaining a club website. She will also discuss her experience developing the well-received Salmon Spectator newsletter, and the takeaways she’s learned this season.
Katie is the Publications Liaison (and 2nd basewoman) for the Chicago Salmon. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from Knox College. She has extensive social media experience and focuses on running both the Facebook page and Instagram for the Salmon (find both @ChicagoSalmonBaseBall), and works with a team to maintain and update the Salmon website, chicagosalmon.org. Along with her husband, Brennan “Sketch” Probst, she created the Salmon Spectator newsletter, which comes out after each match, and can be viewed on the Salmon website.
We hope to see you at the 2023 Dayton VBBA Conference.
The 2022 VBBA Dearborn Conference videos are now available.
www.vbba.org/videos/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-CITCOrFw&t=404s
Photography, like base ball, has seen a multitude of changes since its inception in the mid-19th century, and would be nearly unrecognizable today to those who first conceived it. Brennan “Sketch” Probst will guide you through a brief history of 19th century photographic technology, and how it was used to capture base ball. In addition, Sketch will explain how he goes about using modern camera technology to effectively capture the vintage game we all love so well.
Brennan “Sketch” Probst has played for the Chicago Salmon since 2020. While he does his best as an outfielder, Sketch’s greatest contribution to the club is perhaps his photography. Sketch holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans, and is currently an adjunct professor at Carthage College where he teaches darkroom and digital photography.
The 2022 VBBA Dearborn Conference videos are now available at the VBBA website, www.vbba.org/videos/ and on the VBBA YouTube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7Zd7YnDYk&t=115s
We hope to see you at the 2023 Dayton, Ohio VBBA Conference, March 31-April 2.
The 2022 VBBA Dearborn Conference videos are now available at the VBBA website, www.vbba.org and on the VBBA YouTube page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZQik5jOLhIGthnIZxV-gw/fe
First up the All Comers Game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUv95hhds_E
A great interview with Richard Hershberger, historian, and member of the VBBA Rules & Custom Committee. He explains why baseball was not invented by one person. In addition he explains the story of how General Abner Doubleday was erroneously credited with inventing baseball.
Early Baseball: History and Myth
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Professor Buzzkill gets schooled on the early history of baseball! Noted baseball historian, RichardShould have Richard speak at a VBBA convention.
VBBA Town Hall Facebook Group
This VBBA Town Hall group is designed to allow different vintage base ball (VBB) teams and players to learn about upcoming events throughout the nation. The intent is to enable folks from the different parts of this country to have discussions about how their seasons have been going and to facilitate interclub relationships.
