VBBA 2023 Conference
Dayton
March 31 - April 2, 2023
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The Vintage Base Ball Association is happy to announce that Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Museum will be this year's 2023 VBBA Dayton Conference Keynote Speaker, on April 1st..
www.vbba.org/2023-presenters-guide/
Prince Honeycutt, Minnesota’s first black professional base ball player (1873) by Eric Berg They played barehanded. His story is quite compelling.
Eric Squarehead Berg was a member of the Springfield Long Nine Vintage Base Ball Club more than ten years. Most recently he was the team’s captain. Dr. Eric Berg is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bemidji State University. Previously he was a Professor of Philosophy at MacMurray College.
The 2022 VBBA Dearborn Conference videos are now available.
www.vbba.org/videos/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykjt_wIO-zs&t=13s
Please join us tonight at 8ET for The Base Ball Zoom. We will be enjoying Game 7 of the 1985 World Series. us02web.zoom.us/j/85110442723?pwd=MFJXTDA1c2o4OUhyVG5RUkZSWmtuZz09
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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
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.
