{"id":1471,"date":"2012-08-28T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2013-10-25T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:36:18","slug":"october-2-330-pm-paley-library-lecture-hall-the-american-idea-on-sports-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2012\/08\/28\/october-2-330-pm-paley-library-lecture-hall-the-american-idea-on-sports-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Idea on Sports And Race, October 2, 3:30, Paley Library Lecture Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Idea on Sports and Race: A Conversation with Larry Lester and Rebecca Alpert<br \/>\nOctober 2, 3:30 PM<br \/>\nBaseball\u2014the great American pastime\u2014also serves as a lens through which to explore and examine broader American ideas on race, heroes and popular culture. Join 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 <em>Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2011), to discuss the history of race and baseball. Lester has served as a curator and consultant at numerous cultural institutions, including the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Lester authored<em> The Negro Leagues Book<\/em> (Society for American Baseball Research, 1994), which has been called \u201cthe most complete collection of information on . . . the Negro Leagues ever published.\u201d Alpert has published several journal articles on Jews and baseball, was featured as an expert commentator in the film, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (Willow Pond Films, 2010, directed by Peter Miller), and is frequently consulted by the press on the subject. Both Lester and Alpert name Jackie Robinson as a hero and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1482\" alt=\"Zach Clayton sitting with members of the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team.\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/files\/2012\/08\/ZachClaytonandMonarchs_LoRes-300x234.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Idea on Sports and Race: A Conversation with Larry Lester and Rebecca Alpert October 2, 3:30 PM Baseball\u2014the great American pastime\u2014also serves as a lens through which to explore and examine broader American ideas on race, heroes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2012\/08\/28\/october-2-330-pm-paley-library-lecture-hall-the-american-idea-on-sports-and-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs","category-top-news","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PKHL-nJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}