Baseball—the great American pastime—also serves as a lens through which to explore and examine broader American ideas on race, heroes and popular culture. Larry Lester, a co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, associate professor of religion at Temple University and author of Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (Oxford University Press, 2011) discuss the history of race and baseball at Paley Library.
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
