please give a warm welcome to adam lazarus. thank you very much for having me. as you just heard, i'm a nonfiction from atlanta, georgia, with few sports history books out in the last years. but i want to tell you about my latest book, which in some ways is a sports history book, but about a lot more than that. as you heard from no doubt from the title there, two main figures in my book, the john glenn, ted williams. i want to open up and give you a little bit of on both of them. so who was john glenn. john glenn was born in cambridge ohio on july 18th, 1921. he was a marine corps fighter pilot in two wars, world war two and the korean war. he flew a 147 combined missions, received 18 air medals and six distinguished flying crosses. heater becammiry test pilot at patuxent river naval air station in maryland he helped create, conceive and execute something called project, which i'll tell you about a little bit later. he was one of the first american astronauts part of the mercury program, became the first american to orbit the earth in february of 1962. he later