with that let introduce you to interview and author, janice llamoca is an award-winning journalist and producer at npr mckinney usa. she began her career as an entertainment digital and over the past five years janice has shifted her focus to audio sharing nares about communities of color. during her time shows dunst was about history, language access and culture and humanize her stories with compelling voices. her work is featured in the near times, npr's code switch, and more. our author tonight is eric nusbaum, he is a former sport editor advice and his work on sports, history and culture has appeared in espn magazine, sports illustrated, outside, the "daily beast", that spent in the best american sports writing anthology. eric was born and raised in l.a. he has spent many hours of attending games at dodger stadium in city traffic to each of those games as many of us have. they are here tonight to present eric spoke "stealing home" so i would like to turn over to them, and before we get to the q&a section that come to let -- please enjoy this. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hey