The UA's David Soren, Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Classics, talks with The Atlantic about the surprising connection between baseball and vaudeville. Soren will teach a course about the Forgotten Stars of Vaudeville this summer as part of the Humanities Seminars Program.

Starting as early as the 1860s, baseball players started moonlighting as stage performers, Soren told The Atlantic. Read the full story here.