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Lawrence "Larry" Levine
Vice-President
Having been abandoned by his beloved New York Giants in 1957, Larry Levine, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Quinnipiac University, developed an attachment to the Boston Red Sox which has lasted and grown through all the years of pain and joy since then.
He recently retired from the full-time faculty at QU after close to 40 years of service but continues to teach one course each semester. It is his spring term course which has become his favorite. It is The History and Social Impact of Baseball in America and has quickly become one of the most popular courses at the university. Levine’s hope is that by using students’ love of the game as a starting point, they can appreciate not only the rich history of the game itself but through that history to see American society more clearly.
He is currently engaged in attempting to develop a roster of all baseball-related courses at institutions of higher learning so that those who teach such courses can exchange pedagogical ideas, syllabi, perspectives, etc. He is also interested in the saga of Hiram Bithorn, the first Puerto Rican major league player whose peculiar death still piques the imagination.
His family includes three sons and a granddaughter. He admits that his oldest son is a Yankee fan which has him continually wondering what monstrous sin he committed that such a plague has been visited upon him.
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Joseph
C. "Joe" Williams
Treasurer
Born in 1967, Joe grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY. His interest in baseball
history began in the early 1970s when he received from his uncle
a 1952 edition of Ken Smith’s Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Through this book he began to learn about the history of the game
and about baseball’s all-time greats. Joe’s area of expertise
is the National Baseball Hall of Fame and has attended the annual
induction ceremony in Cooperstown each year since 1987.
After graduating college from the University at Albany, Joe became
a SABR member in 1990. Joe is very active in the CT Smoky Joe Wood
SABR Chapter and was named Treasurer in 2006. He is a member of the
BioProject, Deadball Era, Negro Leagues, Nineteenth Century and Women
in Baseball committees.
A life-long New York Mets fan, the 1986 World Series is his greatest
moment as a baseball fan and is looking forward to their next championship.
Joe currently resides in East Hampton, CT with his wife Carol, son
Tony and daughter Jackie and is a law librarian for a large regional
law firm.
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