“Say it Ain’t Contagious: Reopening and Rethinking
Baseball in the Age of Pandemic”
A Live Conversation: Online via Zoom 7 p.m. EST, June 17, 2020

Three months ago, spring training was winding down and another baseball season
was about to begin. Then the coronavirus pandemic emerged and the season—as
well as so much else—was thrown into doubt. Where does the game go from here?

How does it return and, as importantly, how does a wary public engage with
spectator sports in an age without in-person spectators? How is the absence of
baseball affecting us as individuals and as a society? Join panelists Craig
Calcaterra, Steven Goldman, Frank Guridy, Lincoln Mitchell, and moderator Tova
Wang for an evening of analysis, opinion, and insight. The event is free. To get the
Zoom link, please RSVP to lincoln@lincolnmitchell.com.

Craig Calcaterra is the lead national baseball writer for NBCSports.com. He writes
about non-baseball things at CraigCalcaterra.com and is on Twitter
@craigcalcaterra.

Steven Goldman is the current Consulting Editor and former Editor-in-Chief of
Baseball Prospectus; the host of the Infinite Inning podcast on sports, history,
politics, and culture; and the author of Forging Genius: The Making of Casey
Stengel (Potomac Books, 2005). He is on Twitter @GoStevenGoldman.

Frank A. Guridy teaches history and African American and African Diaspora
Studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How
Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (University of Texas Press, 2021)
shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized
backgrounds transformed sports. He is on Twitter @fguridy.

Lincoln Mitchell teaches in the political science at Columbia University. His most
recent book is San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval Punk Rock and a Third
Place Baseball Team (Rutgers University Press, 2019). His writings on politics,
baseball and foreign policy can be found at www.lincolnmitchell.com. He on
Twitter @LincolnMitchell.

Tova Wang is a born and raised baseball and Yankee fan. She misses baseball. A
lot. She is also democracy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, author of the
book The Politics of Voter Suppression: Increasing and Expanding Americans’ Right
to Vote (Cornell University Press, 2012). She is on Twitter @Tovawang1.