{"id":45565,"date":"2022-03-29T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=45565"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:22:23","slug":"bemidji-state-professors-research-key-moments-in-baseball-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/bemidji-state-professors-research-key-moments-in-baseball-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji State Professors Research Key Moments in Baseball History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 clearfix my-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bemidji State Professors Research Key Moments in Baseball History\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/693586232?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"intro\">On March 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/gh1532ru\/\"><b>Dr. Eric Berg<\/b><\/a>, associate professor of philosophy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/mv5476kg\/\"><b>Dr. Lindsay Bell<\/b><\/a>, assistant professor of history, will continue the Spring 2022 Honors Council Lecture Series with their research on two select histories within America&rsquo;s national pastime &ndash; baseball.<\/p>\n<p>In &ldquo;Prince Honeycutt: The First African American Baseball Player in Minnesota,&rdquo; Berg will outline the life of Prince Honeycutt who, among other accomplishments, founded Minnesota&rsquo;s Fergus Falls North Star Baseball Club in 1873<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Prince Honeycutt lived a remarkable life by any account,&rdquo; Berg said.<\/p>\n<p>In his presentation, Berg will also focus on how professional baseball got started under Honeycutt&rsquo;s leadership on the Minnesota prairie.<\/p>\n<p>Bell&rsquo;s research, titled &ldquo;Uncle Sam Strikes Out: Commissioner Landis and the Rehabilitation of Baseball&rsquo;s Patriotism,&rdquo; explores how organized baseball influenced America&rsquo;s perceptions of race, manhood and identity between 1917 to 1947. His research primarily explores how and why the game&rsquo;s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, initiated a campaign to rehabilitate the image of the professional ballplayer.<\/p>\n<h2>About Berg<\/h2>\n<p>Berg holds a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in political science and philosophy from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, a master&rsquo;s in theology and doctrine from the Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bell<\/h2>\n<p>Bell received his doctorate from Iowa State University in Ames May 2020 and specializes in early twentieth-century United States history, specifically the role of sports to the construction of modern American culture. He has presented his research at the Baseball Hall of Fame&rsquo;s annual consortium and virtually as part of the 2020 Society for American Baseball Researchers national conference.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Honors Council Lecture Series<\/h2>\n<p>The Honors Council Lecture Series is hosted by the Bemidji State University Honors Council, the advisory group to BSU&rsquo;s honors program. It is composed of 12 faculty members representing each of the university&rsquo;s colleges. Student representatives are also elected to the council by their cohorts for one-year terms. The series provides BSU faculty with a forum to share their expertise and the results of their research with the Bemidji community. All Honors Council lectures are open free to the public.<\/p>\n<h2>Calendar Information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.bemidjistate.edu\/honors\/view\/event\/event_id\/145322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><b>March 30<\/b> &ndash; Hagg-Sauer Hall 116, 6 p.m. <i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/fe1553zh\/\">Season Ellison, associate professor of history, Honors and Liberal Education Programs director.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/honors\/\">BSU Honors Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2022-B-000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tag-teamed lecture, Berg and Bell discuss two select histories within America&#8217;s national pastime, baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1025,3,977,1032,872,950,953,9,681,25,1033,980,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-academic-integrity","category-academics","category-faculty-news","category-history","category-homepage","category-landing-page","category-mybsu","category-news","category-news-updates","category-people","category-philosophy","category-strategic-plan","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45565\/revisions\/45573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}