David Shiner

David Shiner is Professor of Humanities and the History of Ideas at Shimer College in Chicago, where he has taught since 1977. He is also a student of baseball history and member of the Society for American Baseball Research; his works include Baseball's Greatest Players: The Saga Continues (2001). Shiner has the unusual distinction of having taught every course in Shimer College's Great Books core curriculum, and has served several terms as Dean of the College and as director of Shimer's Oxford program. (from Shimer College Wiki)