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...Daniel DiMaggio...
...Lake Otesaga, one finds the National Baseball Museum, the National Baseball Library and the Hall of Fame. Within the cathedral silence of the Hall visitors meet past greats, gazing mildly from bronze plaques mounted on the walls. Gathered there are the greatest ball players ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized biography, solid in many respects but edited by the subject, in this case Major League Baseball...
...DiMaggio admits that this troubles him. “It is an uncomfortable place for me to be in,” he admits. He confesses that he has asked himself “Where do your allegiances lie? What is the ethical obligation when your parents are working class, you want to show solidarity with the working class, and yet you’re going to be an elite...
...DiMaggio points out that during the sit-in, dining hall workers, janitors and security guards took part in a protest inside the Holyoke Center, personally organized marches and spoke at PSLM rallies. It seems that the PSLM now views its relationship with these sometimes uneasy bedfellows as, in Bartley’s words, “less patronizing, and more of a partnership...
...DiMaggio was particuarly conscious that the students were being presented as “a model of altruistic sentiment,” which complicated the notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would...