Illinois State University’s Spring Speaker Series will feature presentations on the Titanic, the catastrophic New York 1896 heat wave, the death and life of the American school system, lessons for life and career, McLean County baseball from 1857 to 1941, keys to health, the grave marker project for Negro League baseball players, the man who “bought a zoo,” the international world of black baseball and the past and present of Negro League baseball.

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