the out. one down. >> buck: good sinking fastball. jammed matt laporta. good job retreating and backing up for the infield. >> jim: big out. first up. that was almost not fair. terrific pitch that almost fell for a base hit. bases every nighty. ball one inside. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are hitless today. 0-13 combined. and they have been such an important offensive part of the attack throughout this series.

matt malt 7 outstand -- brian matusz 7 outstanding innings, now johnson here in the #th. 2-2. wednesday he got him.   update on the player of the day. felix pie getting the fan club going. he has the lead. still have time to text in your vote. we will have the results on the post game. >> you start hitting home runs and fans notice you. it is impressive. >> buck: he has really swung the bat well and taken full advantage of his increased

opportunities of late. >> jim: 1-1 as johnson try to close it out to earn his 7th save. 2-outs, nonnone on in the 9th inning. and does he check in time? and valbuena has struck out twice and slide out. and into first. top hop for aubrey. picked up a flip and the ball game is over. so the orioles bounced back after a tough loss last night. all throughout the rain and the orioles win it today to split this series with the indians, 2- 2. and brian matusz, outstanding to get the win, as jim johnson comes on to earn

the save. final score, orioles 5, the indians 2! @@pp

 >> jim: we are back here. we will come back, take a look at the highlights and more about the orioles getting the split against the cleveland indians. let's return you to jim and buck. >> buck: thank you. we will head downstairs and visit with amber. >> reporter: what a game by brian matusz. he said in his last outing he didn't think he was being aggressive enough, not attacking hitters. did you see him be aggressive in this game? >> buck: yes. he was able to individual in enough all season to keep them

off balance. he was outstanding for the first five innings and a little blip in the 6th inning and 7th. >> he was able to get the next batter out and move on. >> act exactly. he has strong will and was able to dote through the inning. >> reporter: you have seen what these team cans do when they turn the corner, come out and go deep into the game. >> these young stars are giving you a hint of what they can do. hopefully we will move forward and keep going. >> reporter: thanks a lot, brian matusz. jim? >> jim: game one of the three game series tomorrow night. coverage on masn begins at 6:30 with o's extra, and the game against the o's and yankees at 7:00. saying so long from orioles

park. now the o's extra, with tom davis and rick dempsey. >> jim: and welcome to o's extra post game here on masn. brought to you by verizon. the orioles wound up winning, getting four-game split for the cleveland indians, wing by a count of 0-2. let's go back -- 5-2. let's go back to brian matusz. you have had nice conversations with him. >> the young man is easy to talk to and outspoken when you get him talking about pitching. i said, you know something, i have called a lot of guys that look just like you, left- handed. change of speed, good command of all of their pitches. before the season is over, you could with pitching in the big leagues. he didn't believe me but there he is.

the first three or four starts, it was iffy, nervous, tense, over throwing with the body, but he said yesterday, rick, i feel something different about the way i threw my last bullpen. i haven't been relaxed enough, nice and easy going. i said tell me what it feels like when your behind, he says he released it out here. well, today he wasn't telling me a lie. he looked awesome out there today. he really had an ooutstanding game. so nice and relaxed. change up, everything looked like a fastball coming out of his hand. you could tell because cleveland had a tough time with him for 7 innings. >> the orioles scored four times in the 3rd inning. brian roberts with a ground ball here to 3rd. fielded by jamey carroll, then

promarkakis. >> jim: escars on the over throw. that is what he should have done. >> homer to left field off to have brian matusz. >> jim: start. >> jim: starting to make me a believer. joy, he showed great power today. >> and look, scott comes throw in the 4th inning with a double to left center field. >> jim: has a little add on run. struggling to really kind of find his power stroke. start today pitch him. hit the home run, now he is taking the single and rbi, big run for the orioles today. >> buck: 54, 77 for season. now, 32 and 33 camden yard. luke scott there, but brian matusz who came through with the 3rd win of the season. the orioles beating the cleveland indians 5-2. when you look back at this game, there

is a lot of interest in this from the orioles pitcher, matt massachusetts. let's go back to the both and visit with buck martinez. what did you think of his work? >> buck: we had aequorins with brian. he was kind of casting the ball to the plate, trying to be too fine. today you could see it from the first pitch, commit today executing every pitch. his entire effort was toward the strike zone. all the breaking balls over. a sharpness to the breaking ball we haven't seen. the breaking ball was tumbling to the plate before today. here is brian matusz going 7-0. this was going to be an exceptional start for him. really a great step in the right direction for brian matusz. look what he did. 7 innings, just a single earned run. the biggest thing is 4 hits allowed. he has been given up a lot of

hits. today he neutralized him. i think the whole key, rick will understand this, using the fastball nearly the count, getting ahead, and in the middle innings using the get ahead curve ball he couldn't even swing it. >> i think felix pie has put himself back in the mix in the outfield situation that the orioles have. he is showing everybody this guy knows what a bat is in his hand, hitting the bat with power and making it tough on dave trembley to figure out where to play all four of these guys. >> buck: there is no manager that doesn't want to play these players. terry crowley did give this guy a chance, ironing out problems, being more selective and he is going to the opposite field. he was having good at-bats and showing a lot of power to the opposite field and to me it is a good sign that he knows what he is doing at the plate and the good step in the right

direction for him, as well. >> buck: enjoy your comments. time now for the dave trembley press conference. >> jim: but he doesn't need to do that. his arm speed was very good on all four of his pitches today. i think that was probably the matusz that we all know. i mean, there have been time this is year where i think a lot of these kids think harder the better, faster is better, quicker is better, and that is not how he pitches. he pitches nice and easy, so he gets some movement with the fastball, he can pitch in and the other pitches come out of his hand real loose. that is how we pitched in spring training, right there. that was vintage matusz. he is going to win so many games because he pitches in and pitches out, mixes them up. he gets guys caught inbetween. they can't pull the trigger.

he was very good to. i told johnson, i thought the difference with johnson today, he picked up the tempo of this game. he worked much quicker, he had movement on his fastball. the guy in the top to have #th, i mean he saw -- 9th, i mean he saw them pitch in, and got the guys having a great series against them, matt laporta, and andy marte today. and felix pie got a big hit. it is that simple. he got a big hit and our situational hitting was improved and we made some productive outs. we got a split out of the series. not easy but we have a young club. the guyings are resilient cent, pus the past behind them and today was a good example of that. >> buck: he seem today be using a lot and getting lot of the strikes with him? >> i thought all his pitches

were the best. first pitch change up that he through to matt laporta, got him in front and threw it out to left field. i thought his secondary pitches were good today but i thought the reason they were so good because the fastball set everything up for him. i think when you talk to him later, he will tell you some things i am sure, but he had been trying to force it, trying to throw hard. he is not a guy that -- we don't want him throwing 93, 94. we don't want him doing that, muscle in the ball, trying to force it, jerking off, pulling off the pitches. we don't want him to do that. the curve ball was good but i thought it all comes off the fastball and the delivery. the delivery was the same all the time today. very good. >> two partier, do you ever allow yourself to watch to 2010, and if so, felix pie, where would he start to fit into your head thinking ahead

there, how you are going to give him playing time? >> um, well, i can -- i will generalize it, i guess. felix pie has improved since the all-star break. you know, moving, opened up a spot in the line up for pie. we told him that he was going to get a majority of the playing time against right- handed pitching, and, you know, this is an opportunity for him coming down the last 35 gamesors to show what he -- or so and show what he got, go home, put it to bet for the winter, and show us what you have for next year. he is doing a nice job, showing great opportunities. >> he is runners on 1st and 3rd and 2 outs in the 6 inning. what did he show you to speed the game up? >> i think that is what he

showed us when he won his first game against detroit. 2 games on and two game in the middle of the line up. he help from speeding the game up, so fast, so quick, over power, try to get it all done yourself. he doesn't do that. he doesn't put his foot all the way down on the pedal. he backs off, if any, and allows his stuff to work for him. >> once he got out of the inning, was there a temptation at that point $. >> in the 7th? no. i thought he made adjustments and he was fine. if he had a guy on in the 7th he would have been hooked. i wouldn't let him go over a hundred pitches today. he wasn't going over hundred. >> do you think he knows he went to his mouth. >> no, he went to his mouth. we have been telling a lot of young guys not to do that.

you have a guy out there that ain't going to miss. my other buddy wouldn't have missed it either. and everybody knows who my other buddy is. >> did he have the ball in his hand? >> yes. he was on the dirt. i see a lot of guys come out of college and high school do it. it is a habit. i see a lot of guys go to bottom of the mound and they are really not on the dirt and i will yell, make them get on the grass. it was a good lesson for him, but i tell you, a lot of guys would have played with their head and got them out of sync. he needed to regroup and he did. tillman told him what he did. he has gotten are little better. he got caught. so what. it is over. >> i know the base running has been a incentive topic.

what did you think of wigginton play at the plate in a lighter moment? >> he was a run away freight train is what he was. jim schafer, an old minor league guy in this system who i managed in hagueerstown in 9 89t guy was rounding third and be out by a mile, he would say he looks like a beer truck that just got out of a store. and that is what he, he looked just like a beer truck that was just, you know got out of the store and couldn't wait to get there, open up first cold one. wasn't pretty. [ laughing ] >> buck: and coming off a plymouth of the the series, yankees coming in, all the young guys trying to heroine on

the fly -- trying to learn on the fly. what do you tell them? >> i tell them, go enjoy the night, go enjoy a family day out here. go relax tonight. you know, when you play the top teams in baseball, especially the yankees in boston, it is not only a test of your ability physically, but it also expends a lot of effort mentally and emotionally. i like the guy to enjoy the evening, relax, come out here tomorrow, have good preparation before. probably have a little meeting and talk to guys on a 1 on 1 base, and we will go get them. that is the way it goes. >> after going through a really rough year, the last 10 or 11 days, you guys have stabilized. do you see anything different in the last 10 or 11 days that

you didn't see before? >> i think we play with a lot of heart. i think we give a lot of energy. i think pie has added to that. i think the shortstop has been vastly underrated. his play has helped us tremendously. roberts was carrying the club. you get a just steady day in and day out. wieters got better. overall improvement from a lot of the young guys, and if you get decent starting pitching -- like i say you don't have to get 12 outside of your bullpen, you will have a chance to at least put yourself in a position to win the game and that is what we are trying to do. >> you got it. >> the press conference. time to take a look at the at&t player of the game. turned out to be a landlined

reversal. brian matusz got 81% of the vote. pie with 17%. so, brian matusz the at&t player of the game. fans are happy, the birds beat the indians, 5-2. xw@t@u@@@@@h

 >> the orioles beat clevela 5-2. great day for brian matusz. 3 of his last four starts he struck out at least 7. the fewest hits he ever allowed in a big league game. quite a credit to the orioles left-hander. joining us now. rick kranitz. what did you see from brian matusz today, the most you liked? >> i saw him make a great adjustment from his last couple

of outings. he was so relaxed. he had been having problems locating his last few starts. he got it back today. he was really relaxed. what we saw today was all four of his pitches. we really only seen three. his curve ball was just thrown, you know, maybe two or three time in the game. i think maybe today used it 10 or 12, very effective. we saw all four pitches, exactly what he is. that is a four-pitch guy that has strikeout potential and the ability to go late in ball games as we saw today. >> rick, another guy a focal point of the pitching staff is jim johnson. looks hot and cold sometimes, but really fighting to get back on track again. one of the best sinkers in all of baseball. what about him? >> like today, he went with

matt wieters and he didn't shake off. when he got his fastball the way it was tonight, nobody is going to hit him, i don't care who it is. he got in a very good rhythm, didn't waste time between pitches. that is what we saw tonight. those guys had poor swings on him and he is capable of doing that. he gets himself a little in trouble at time, but his sinker is one of the best i have seen in major leagues. >> aside from the two guys we are talking about today, rick, you have to be happy about the way berken handled it today. they had little better stretches than the first initial breakout game they had. >> you are right. the one thing about him, we drafted some tough kids. these guys are tough, especially berken when you go back and see some of the problems he had earlier in this

year, now he has it turned around. won 3 of the last 4. hernandez is tough, tilt is tough. sometimes what they do is go out and give these guys too much credit. doesn't matter who they are facing. they need to use their stuff, need to show the people of baltimore exactly what they can do, and pound the strike zone. use the stuff -- to me it doesn't matter at this point whether or not they have to make that perfect pitch or not, but they need to use their abilities to pound the strike zone, and as you saw today, when you start doing that, you start to find the feel of everything, and sometimes i think we don't do that quite often enough, and for young pitch everies, they tend to think they have to make the perfect pitch. >> buck: we appreciate what you have to say as always, rick. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> when we return, we will talk more about the orioles 5-2

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 [. a lot of training thing that we broke down on involvement i looked at a lot of video with my pitches and then i took pitches. and i was starting toe do too much, extepidding my arm too far back and trying to overpower it. and that's where i am. >> is that an indication of how well you're doing as opposed to maybe just going out there and

letting the ground ball, fly ball, the strike pitch count, is that telling you the kind of stuff that you had. >> look at the stuff i had today and i think it was balanced between all my pitch. and i think just a matter of mixing it up, keeping guys off balance. i'm not just going out there trying to strikeout, just trying to keep them off balance. and when you do that, your strikeouts will come. >> breaking down in the mechanics, how much was you in the head? >> oh, it was all up in the head. i came out here, got brought up and i was trying to do too much rather than just pitching my game. and that has a lot to do with it. obviously, i made some adjustments, but a lot had to do up top. and i was able to figure it

out. >> i was just kind of wondering what i did. i didn't even realize i went to my hand or mouth at all until i looked at it at video and saw that i did right after the pitch. but no, mad i did, they just told me to stay focused, didn't worry about it. didn't continue doing the game. i don't think it got me out of the game at all. so that's just one of the thing i got to remember. can't go to my mouth. >> brian trying to strike guys out and keep hitters off balance. today, seven innings, one earned run, four hits, eight strikeouts, he won his third.

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 the orioles begin a ser against the yank keys tomorrow night. >> this is going to be a very interesting match-up. andy has one of the greatest records against any team, 25-6 against the orioles. but rook at that e.r.a, he is struggling a little bit to keep people off base, even though his record is good, his offense really helps him. his last two games have been outstanding. he's found his tempo. he is looking for his 10th win. it's going to be so nice to watch them match up again here tomorrow night. >> in last two start, so much innings and io 1.29 e.r.a. >> he has found it again and andy is going of the a tough time keeping the phones off the base. >> the orioles beat cleveland 5- 2, a two-run homer. he strike out eight in as much

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year. yankees up 3-2. bottom of the seventh, teixeira, big game for him. homer and drove in four runs. three-run shot here off that line drive. yankees win o a three-run shot right here. the yank keys go on to win 8-3 . so the yank keys improve to 48-48 that is the best record in the major leagues. he reaches 100 rbis for the sixth straight season, 15 rbis in the last ten games and that. home run, that was the 200th at the new stadium. will have his pitching elbow examined by the staff and get an x-ray. peavy was supposed to throw 100 pitches yesterday, but left the game in the fourth inning with soreness in the right elbow. >> get a check on the cardinals and nationals.

this now in the top of the eighth inning and ryan franklin, the closer, is in the game, going for a save 2-1 st. louis with the lead in this one. the rookie rasmus with two hits and both runs scored for the cards. what to watch for, braves and phillies, including their three-game series tonight. atlanta leads the series 9-5 and taken 7 of the last 10 at philadelphia dating back to last year. 3-1/2 games back of the rockies in the n.l. wild card. >> previously hard knocks, no sign of andre smith in bengals camp. fitting because first round pick was unsigned. that changes today. the first round draft choice has signed after missing all of training sxachl three pre-season games. six years, 42 million. that is is the deal for andre smith. >> for michael crabtree, when asked when he will sign for the

regular season begins, 49ers g.m. said, "he'll get done." if crabtree signs before the 13th opener at arizona he will contribute as a rookie. >> remember, a year ago, a left leg your in a game led to matt cassel taking over and now cassel has his own left-leg injury. x-rays negative and additional information is expected after practice on monday. three plays interest yesterday's game he had to limp off the field after getting sacked right there. >> updating you on little league world series happening on abc. seventh time taipai and california have met in the championship game. top three, chinese taipai gets on the board first thanks to the home run there. the chinese taipai 25-2 all time against the u.s. in the little league world series n. those games, the chinese taipai

yardwork. solo jack, 3-0 in top of the third and chinese tiement tieai the damage against the team. and roberto, grounder and booted. everyone is safe. and a strike out to end the inning. 3-1 is where we stand. >> coming up, does anybody know what time it is? does anybody care? the answer is yes and it could impact michigan rebuilding efforts. >> tiger woods in contention at the barclays. see if he moved to the top of the leader board. stay current with "espnews."

big man that looked like a line backer with a hat that was too short. i remember this, he said come on in. so i go in, and madame, because that's what my mother's friend was called. you go sit in the corner and be quiet. don't say anything. she goes into the box and i hear her arguing. they are arguing, the raised voices, words used, there's these four guyst a card table playing poker. you know not watching their words in fron of 9 year old me, and i'm sitti tre. so then i hear the voices from the room coming up the hall. and there's this man's deep voice and he is telli madame off. and as he's walking in the room and saying and let me tell you

just -- hello. how are you doing? hi. and madame says, oh, mr. johnson, let me introduce to you my darling, darling, kk. my godchild. okay. kk say hello. hi, mr. johnson well, hello ms. kk how are you? and what are you doing here today? madame saying, you know, kk just won an award at school. and she's been picked to go to the igc, one of only three children in manhattan to get picked for the program. ether johnson, oh, well that's so nice. we happen to think of something nice to get you. how would you like some ice cream. yes. madame, what do you say? yes, sir. well, okay.

you go get some ice cream. one of these guys jumped up, went into the kitchen an brought back two bowls of ice cream. one more aand one more mr. johnson. he's eating and he says, what's wrong? inly like chocolate. madame says st up, kk. mr. johnson no, if she wants chocolate, she gets chocolate. he sent the man to the store to get kk some chocola ice crm. that was impressive, except that mr. johnson loved to read. i was 9 years old and i loved to read. even know i'm compared. he was my favorite writer, i love hughes. i used to go over to 409 avenue, stand across the street and just look a the building. that's how dorky i was.

it's like thearch learn renaissance, all of these writers living in that building. he would talk to me about them. he told me what a nice guy he was. you know, andhen we started talking. one of the things i realized is the reason why she brought m over there is that mr. johnson loved kids. and madame w always in trouble with mr. johnson. but if i was with her, he treated her nice so she always brought me with her. i even got to the point where i could demand the air conditioner got to be on. okay? so he even got me to admit i didn't want to go to igc. and he asked me why, and i sd because. because when you're 9 years old, isn't that the answer to everything. so i said 'caus and he said

'cause what? ensaid well, they are going to make fun of my clothes. he said, well, miss kk, you don't go to school because of your clothes or worry about that. what you're sposed to go -- the reason you're supposed to go is to get an education. when i was in school, people used to make fun of my clothes. now this is a man, i'm 9 years old. i don'tnow anything, still don't, but you could tell these were some threads. okay? and i looked at him, and i said from johnson people made fun of you because of your clothes? he's like yeah. he said what did you do. he said i beat them up. and the guys in the room, because we were never in the room alone. the guys in the room starting laughing. he gave glare and they

stopped. he said i don't want you to beat them up. i want you to show them that you're as good as them. i went all right, okay. you know? well, shortly thereafter he was arrested and right after that we had two men knock on my mher's do. at about 10:340 at night. and when my mother opened the door, they gave her a vhite envelope with two $100 bil. now 1966, that was enough to pay for school clothes for me, my older brother, and my twin sister for the entire schoo year. you old timers know about 116th black avenue. i mean for $25 you could pretty much buy all the clothes that

you needed. the funny thing is i knew that mr. johnson's name was ellsworth. and i knewhat there were people who called mr. ellsworth johnsonuppy. being in the harlem even at 9 years o, i knew who buppy johnson was. but at 9 years old, i couldn't make the connection. because my mr. johnson couldn't be that murder, that gangster. i could not bring myself to make that connection until more than 20 years later. when i'm now, thanks to mr. johnson, i went to school, made something of myself, and i was w a reportert the philadelphia inquire, which is one of the top ten newspapers in

the coury. and as a program that comes on. on a&e that has the riddle of the rock. in it it mentions buppy johnson the harlem gangster who is rumored to have the only successful escape from al coo razz. so i'm listening but not looking. i justapne to loo up as they were showing a picture. it was my mr. johnson. and as soon as i saw it, i was like of course it's buppy johnson. my mr. johnson is buppy johnson. i had to invent gait. my journalistic juices kicd in. i started doing research and entities.

i started doing all kinds of the schomburg became my second home. one of the people that i talked was dr. henry. you know who he is? okay. yes, please have a hand of applause for that beautul ancestor of ours. he knew buppy johnson. the thing that i wanted to know more than anything because by this time i had all these interviews and research. what i wanted to know from him was, well, what was wrong with me? how could you admire this man that i know has done such dastardly things. i was kind of afraid to thing thatut. this is dr. clark. dr. clark was a real guy, you know? and after he calmed me down and

told me off for not bringing the tape reporter that worked, you know, he really put me at easy. he said the thing is i admire buppy too. i still do to this day t@is is in 1995 or 1996. d i was like how could you? he said because people have three dimension and there's more than one side. he said back then and even now everybod exploited harlem. buppy did, yes, but he gave something back. but he was a gangster with a social conscience. so to acknowledge the goo things that he has done doesn't mean that you'reurning a blind eye to the bad things that he's done. it wasn't the perfect answer, but it was the right answer. because i did underand.

the good things that he didor me and for so many other people didn't erase all of the bad that he may have done. it didn't. and when i decided to go ahead and wte march learn godfather, i did so leaveing the warts but includinghe dimples. because we are the -- you don't want to know abouty past. i can tell you that know. but on the surface, you know, middle age, middle-class african-american women as the best-sellingwards this even that. you don't want to know the rest of the stuff. okay? and if i can be three dimensional, then buppy can o. i met his wife minnie in 1993 or

1994. and we become so close that she callede her goddaughter. i loved minnie johnson so much. sheen recently died. she shared with me a lot of stories about buppy. and we were always, because when i was doing the research it wasn't for a book. i don't know i was doing the research. i had absolutely no clue. i felt compelled to though. and she was encouraging me. he will talk to you or she will talk to you. she was giving me leads and i was finding leads. she didn't decide that we should write book until american gangster. now there was the movie that came out about 1997, 1998 which

got everybody wrong about his life. and minnie thought the movie was funny. you know, he wasn'tpset. her thing was they got it wrong. when "american gangster" came out, she was furious. because frank lucas did now. frank lucas was me like buppy's flunky who would take out the garagen 1th avenue or go pull the carround. but in the movie he made himself out. and minnie was furious. she was like kk, incase you can't figure it out, i'm k

d she told me we're going to write this back. we sat down and we wrote this book. i would say tt 80% of the book is based on research that i did back in the '90s befo i knew i was going to write a book. the other 20% became from her memories and anti-dotes that she told me. so it was a true collaboration. it was her life dream to write a book. she always wanted to write a book. she didn't know what she of thed torite about. she always wanted to write a book. so in 1993, she became a -- so at 93 she became a pow published author. and then she passed away may 1st of this year. i'd like to rea you n exert.

if you guys don't mind? [applause] >> just a few minutes. >> okay. this is the charleston year. this is what made h who he is. he was borne raymond johnson on october 31, 1905 in charleston. i want to get to -- okay. when buppy was about 10, what he told me his 19-year-old brother was accused of killing a white man. this was south carolina, a state who's residents took matter into their own hands when it came to blacks accused of infractions. 1904, a year before he was burn a lynching occurred.

a 21-year-old tenant farmer went fishing. one of the me who had earlier molested. and he threatened to spank the man. when the groupy turned to town, he was promptly arrested, and he would not pay the $5 fine he was thrown into jail. later that day a small group of white man and demanded that book be eleased to them. they then took them to the river side, scalped them, poked out his eyes, cut up his genitals, cut out his tongue, and tied him, he was reportey still alive, and threw him in the river. the crime was s heinous that even the governor didn't like it. but no one was ever punished. this is where he grew up.

his character was already formed when he med. he was sent to harlem by his family because he had decided he wasn't backing down to white men. and they didn't want to get him killed. so "harlem godfather" that was published. i published it through my own publish company, it's a tribute to buppy johnson a minnie, but it's also a trute to kk who's still trying to figure things out, but accepting some things for just what they are. thank you. pplause] >> good afternoon.

i'm haki madhubuti. i'm exciting to be here. every time we come here, they allow us to come to this very grand institution. it's over 75 ars old, and we're very fortunate to be here and most fortunate to be here on the anniversary. i want to thank you for allowing me to come here and say a few words. my wife is in the back, she's taking notes. [applause] >> my wife and i have been together since 1969, and -- [applause] >> you know. i always tell brothers, you know, that the way a marriage lasts, you always marry a women

smarter than you all the time. and then you occasionally teller that. but it is indeed the truth. and you say why do you write a memoir? this is my memoir. the first 21 years after poet's life. the book is about my mother and sister and myself. it's a book that took some 50 years to get out of my system. but i open up with a poem, which is titd, yes. i have nothing of my mother was memory. i have no piece of clothe. no reread books. no recipes for spaghetti, cake, or coleslaw. i decent member the voice. all i have deep inside of me are her last words. quote, you are smarter than us, use the library, take care of

your sister. and learn from what i've done wrg. end quote. on the lower east side and the west side of chicago, i grew up in a situation which i would not wish on anybody. my mother, i was born in little rock, arkansas, we migrated upsoutho michigan. my father left when i was quite young. and my sister had just been born. my mher, you see, was a very pretty women. yellow, black. all right? and my mothe was not an educated women. she could read and write, she could compute minor figures. my mother was brought into the sex trade at a very early age by black ministers. i'll neverorget this. we were trying to move to detroit and we moved