History professor see~ baseball as more than a sport

by Justine Di Filippo assistant photography editor

The history club is sponsoring ' a baseball forum in the Widener Center Lecture Hall on Saturday, Nov. 11.

One of the featured guests is William Simons. Dr. Simons is a professor of history at SUNYOneonta State University in New York. Simons teaches sports history, amongst many other subjects. "It's not just about baseball," Simons says, "It's about the American dream."

Simons teaches the class not to understand baseball as a sport, but to understand Americans. Baseball is a larger society~o~n~ at American dreams anx1et1es.

_)Ian who runs the most rtant Baseball Symposium often writes articles for the Daily Star, a local paper in New York. He is also an editor for a book that is being written by many authors as well as him, titled "Cooperstown Symposium".

Joe DiMaggio at the forum on Saturday. In the 1930s, people of Italian descent were seen as gangsters and the image of not being too bright.

DiMaggio was the alternate image of the common thought of Italians. He was seen as a man with class.

~ w York recommended him Dr. edtke, professor of bisimons was among the top five recommended for the forum held here.

Other than being a professor, Simons is also a writer. He

Simons story is called "Comparing Ethnic Standards: Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg." His story is a comp~i between Joe DiMaggio a Erio' Greenberg, bow they werejected to prejudice and how they came out of it.

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