Quarter of a century ago i came to milwaukee and blood as red about Franklin Delano roosevelt so he wanted to meet me to talk about history keand i wanted to meet him to talk about baseball so always theres been a push and pull, whats happening in baseball, whats happening in the country and weve had this great relationship. I became great friends with his family. Weve been to hall of fame games together, we went to japan for the opening day about the red sox and all this time but would tell me Amazing Stories so i was so glad when he finally decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories because hes a great storyteller. So im so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate area and we will get to the thing thats on everybodys mind which is the Houston Astros disaster in terms of what that means for baseball. This guy is always authentic, he will tell you whats happening but first id like to start with the friendship youve formed with hank aaron beca
Thank you for coming. True crime across america. Im a graduate dean at the university and is happy to be here. We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging
[applause] hello, everybody. I am so happy to be here with my friend, the commissioner, bud selig. I now realize it was a quarter of a century ago, i came to milwaukee, and read no ordinary time about frank and roosevelt. He wanted me to talk about baseball. Always that push and pull. What is happening in baseball, what is happening in the country, we have a great relationship, we became great friends with each others families and went to the hall of fame games together, went to japan for the opening day of the red sox, and all this time, bud selig would tell these amazing stories. I was glad when he decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories. He is a great storyteller. I am so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate. We will get to the thing that is on everybodys might which is the Houston Astros disaster and what that means for baseball. This guy is always authentic. He will tell you what is happening but i would like to start with the fri
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