Process if you havent figured out how to donate the money a couple hundred million dollars, youre not a great person, which is different than a person that doesnt have the privilege of being sentenced. You dont get to have the letters of support attempting to donate all this money how you are able to spend and change the communities. We need to have a little bit more of that outrage coming from the people in which they are wanting the approval most from a. Other people see themselves in the same boat facing the same kind of sanctions. You say its not that youre kind of protecting ourselves, but at the same time you should be able to call out and admit mistakes when they are made. The when mistakes happen they happen in major firms. To think anything other than that would be extreme. We can admit them up front and see what we are doing to change those and its a degree of transparency. What we are doing to address this. Host we could spend a lot more time on this as a fascinating book and one is a formeas aformer prosecutor and enforcement lawyer. Undertaking the work as well as a very informative member of the public so its been a grea its e to spend with you. Congratulations on the book. Thank you for sharing it with us. Guest than guest thank you so much. Good evening, everyone. My name is jennifer, and i am the fairly new manager over here at the Carnegie Library and also the third string player tonight because the first and second were not available and im proud that i is both in that sports an analogy. I also pleased to welcome you to this event tonight, to the made local event. This is one of many wonderful events brought to you by the partnership. The library in pittsburgh arts and lectures have been presenting events like this one for many years for broad ranges of audiences. We are always pleased for a nice positive response and we would invite you to a next time bring a friend or two to help promote peace and keep them going. Also the library is open until 8 p. M. So you can head over and get your car after the event this evening. I would like to recognize classic lines books and more they will be selling the book this evening and they want to make you aware there will be a book signing immediately after this evening. So i knew to working at the main librarymainlibrary, but one of t experiences was hearing about all the staff at the library speaking highly of her. We have a longstanding wonderful relationship with her being the executive director of pittsburgh arts and lectures and ive never met her until this evening so i had the great pleasure and i will give you the great pleasure if you allow me to introduce stephanie who will tell you about the remainder of the evening. [applause] we have a great house tonight for s. L. Price. Hes a super nice. You will love him. Playing through the whistle, is compassion for football and american town is the fourth book for s. L. Price Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated or along with more than three dozen stories is written for vanity fair and the New York Times, Time Magazine and the oxford american. American. Assignments propelled him across the u. S. So we are happy to have been spending so muchim spendinn western pennsylvania and canada as well as colombia, argentina, cuba where he wrote a book about cuban sports, jamaica, france, pakistan, brazil, australia, japan, korea. Hes covered 1011 games, world cups and tennis championships, hes interviewed president s george w. Bush and bill clinton and played barack obama oneonone at an iowa ymca. She interviewed and the reviews have been glowing. The New York Times whenever he writes about sports he hits it over the fence. And i got to take him today. Npr sports commentator, i wouldvwouldpay to read a grocef s. L. Price wrote it. Usa today, hes one of the finest writers on sports anywhere. Earlier today we went over to a class and he shared what he stumbled upon and he found a microcosm. He didnt just produce great Football Players, hes where america happened. Please give a warm welcome to s. L. Price. [applause] that was quite the welcome. I dont think that ive ever heard of being described, not in my own home, thats way. Being described as a lecturer you are here for a historic event because ive never really given anything known as a lecturer before except to my kid and theyve never listened even though im paying for their food and rent and everything else. If you dont listen, i certainly will understand. First, thank you all for coming. This is a subject thats incredibly oddly important to me. I think aliquippa is a special place and if anybody is from that area or from aliquippa specifically, i think they understand what im talking about. Last friday, bill clinton became the fourth u. S. President to visit aliquippa. By my account, i think barack obama did spend some time near getting ice cream, during the campaign. But in th the bounds of aliquipi think theres only four president s have visited. The first was jfk in 1962. Two days later, he got news that the russians have put missiles in cuba and the entire cuban missile crisis began. Im not saying theres any coincidence. [laughter] jimmy carter gave a town hall and george bush also did add another point. I think thats a significant that bill clinton visited. I will get to that in a second but on the same day, aliquippa played for the First Time Since 1997 and that is noteworthy to me because the relationship is interesting. Hes from the hopewell district and they love to claim them as their own and in some ways they showed. So two things happening were significant and i will start with clinton. What i mean by that is this is a count of 9500 people at this point and getting smaller. At its peak it was only 27,000, maybe 30. The census missed some people but its not a town that is by any means a large city and get, there is something and i think the presence of those president s is testament to this, theres Something Special of aliquippa. T aliquippa. I went in the fall of 2010. An editor at Sports Illustrated who i believe is grandfather worked with the union and they are producing incredible Football Players, winning championships and yet the town is dealing with the forces of the mills of shutting down and obviously 25 years previously, sorry, 15 years previously in the mid80s. So i wrote what was essentially the longest piece ive ever written for Sports Illustrated. Id been there now 22 years, it was nearly 10,000 words and it was a specific story about how aliquippa has produced great Football Players and we all know them but i will say that at this point. Tony garza at to some extent, doral, sean gilbert and a slew of division i players and just an incredible amount. And athletes in general. So, i wrote a story about that and how they were still it was kind of a limited story and that it was about football is about football in the face of great difficulty and great pain and triumph amid the pain and it was a pretty graphic story and some people didnt like it because its maybe went into the pain too much, but the people that wrote about it thanks mika monotony that they wanted their story told. They wanted to understand what it took to make it out of aliquippa. I think anybody who comes from there because you often hear its a aliquippa thing, you wouldnt understand. Anybody thats grown up there and left it never really leaves it behind. Its got its sinew and you cant get away from it. It had its say in me and i didnt even grow up there. I thought theres Something Special going on here but i dont quite understand because its not just the thought. Its henry winning four Academy Awards and i think 16 grammy awards. Its growing up next to show whose son went on to win four Academy Awards for the lord of the rings and avatar. James franco at first black thek president of the ncaa, Jesse Steinfeld who grew up just down the street and Jesse Steinfeld became a Surgeon General and richard x. Anand was fired by Richard Nixon for his opposition to the tobacco industry. It was god forgive me for this, could it be im falling in love. Does anybody know the song . Doctor seals, thank you for coming. I cant tell you what an honor it is for me to have doctor melvin seals here because in many ways, he experienced and told me how special aliquippa was because he was incredibly honest to me when we spoke about his experience there. How did i do on that song, not bad, right . Not great, but [laughter] what i thought was amazing is in doing my research, im finding all these other people whove come from aliquippa. Then im finding out if youre excited about the world series last night, i spoke to tito. Terri is from new brighton and tito has lived there for a while. People think im from there but im from aliquippa. There is a pride of place that continues. That idea of greatness rising out of tragedy and pain is something that is obviously appealing to any human being but as a writer, its gold. It happened on the football field but also, to me that story stuck with me. To me doctor steals was teaching in the aliquippa School System at the time it creates racial turmoil and i dont know if you told me about this but i stumbled upon a story where doctor steals wrote a letter in the paper because he was accused wrongly of starting some race fighting in aliquippa for taking some students to a movie. He defended himself there. Meanwhile when attention was at its height, he and his brother who worked and studied music in philadelphia sent down and at a time of tension wrote a beautiful song. Could it be im falling in love, which is about [inaudible] stanek happy anniversary. Congratulations. You should be up here. [applause] that to me was something about aliquippa. His family coming from south is a tough one. He was emblematic of many who had come up in the great migration to but even at its toughest time, aliquippa was doing tough things. I know there are many towns that have produced great athletes and this book is clearly not just about athletes and i know many towns had troubles and problems of management and certainly after the mills shut down but it is represented in the extreme. I would argue that in the mid80s when an entire crowd of vital working class were suddenly cut out of having the foothold in the american dream, we are dealing today in this campaign without the forces still that were never properly addressed so i think this town and what has happened to it is important. When i say represented in the extreme, there were a labormanagement tensions but they had a de facto. They stoped divisions between ethnic groups and kept them in plans. Part of that was your family comes over thank you go to ukraine or poland. Bubut the enforced but because t was too help stop the union organization. As a tactic of division obviously those that came up from the south got the worst jobs and less of a chance of advancement. They would even take it a step further. They would intimidate the workers to start fights with fights and then very conspicuously allow both of them to be hauled off to jail and with the black worker go free and inciting more resentment. He infamously passed out. Then the wife of the governor essentially rode into town and denounced jn now and sort of broke the stranglehold on the town. The wagner act which is the Foundation Stone of the Legal Foundation of america and so even then there was a great representation. And then the problem hit a aliquippa like a typhoon and there were situations where they were running the biggest crack ring in town. It wa was broken finally by a former quarterback devastates policeman. For whatever reason and i have to say that remains a mystery to me, i dont know how they produce more Football Players. The cultural forces at the blossom iblossom in such an ext. Today the first africanamerican mayor in history and again it is a through line for all of this. Its not just together expression of pride. Its a central meredith thread and it doesnt just belong in the pit of a football field. Its been an extraordinary combination of elements that made aliquippa but it is. I was challenged rightfully from other people. And im not denying that. But. There are a lot of names people dont know, and i include a lot of names and once in a while it is to see tony and understand the story because theyve seen them on tv and recognize them so that was helpful but its also this idea of extreme representation. There was something about this town and made people believe as i said in the introduction that wasnt just a place to produce football. Its where it happened over and over again and america continues to do so. Like i said, it was a place of great racial trouble in the 70s starting even back to the 60s when there was a lack of black cheerleaders in the school for football and basketball and so on but it really had a head and was not unique in the county with the nation at large. I want to take you back to a couple things. Im not very good at speaking. Im just going to read a little bit about the great man. You will all say finally this guy is making some weird sense. Actually, hold on. Like i said its good to have a famous name to deal with a little bit. He felt better seeking out mischief taking beatings in return. He went to saint titus for Elementary School but there was also the time he stole a Christmas Ornament off the tree of a library. They found out and the belt came out. With a couple of my buddies we were on a cement culdesac. Finally they did get it out and firemen came. So my dad is having dinner and they said what happened to the woods. [laughter] that was it. This is the worst one i ever got. I dont think that i smoked this in the. The safest place next into the parameter is a sports. It is a perfect fit. Officials announced they stole the first homerun. After a few walks they made him switch positions then they took his place, too. Another time he would go on, drop a ball in center field, chased him out of the stadium, john defense before they got home. It was bad, he said. I never felt like i was doing anything wrong. I and others didnt feel the way that i felt that i had a ton of vision. I didnt ever expect to lose. Thats why losing wasnt so hard. I was a new attitude by the time he entered high school and 53. Just had their first taste of football glory and the basketball teams would regularly compete for titles. Theyve designated but no one ever could. Football is now preeminent. Why would someone my size be a starting Guard Division iii football because if you were not you would be embarrassed to come home. They wouldnt care if you got your acetate. He gave that cable account and thats all it took. Its a big difference. The reason i read that to you if i feel like he really did set the tone. He was invented in many ways. Youve never met a boring play player. They are always fascinating to two, larger than life, just a little bit crazy. I want to review one other thing about hopewell. In 1953, the future postmaster and historian forever devoted of high sports moved to hopewell. Thats what you get when given the chance to. They worked for eight and was making enough to believe the neighborhood. Housing Development Source bringing up all over. A man could carve out some space. Hadnt they had enough excitement . You could get away from the attention and count the cars on one hand. At least nine other veterans moved into the new development with the bungalows the living room, kitchen, basement. Many would graduate high school in the same year and all of them coming in from hopewell were as far away from township. The father of the basketball coach commuted sweating off 5 pounds agreed overturned and he lasted a year. They enabled the steelworkers ts to put a distance between work and home. It was a small sample starting in 1950 and 18 o 1950, 18 of tht cities began its life in the population. The suburbs in biography 60 people. Nobody blames them said the current coach. It was just natural you do what is best for you and your family. Still, it was just a place to lay your head. The men went there to work, pick up supplies. The whole family went back to the festival of weekend of parades and musical, political the home village to so many of the clans. The unattached or not with a drive into the weekly on the second floor of italy hall. The hardwood squeaked from all of that shoe leather and us with. I just want to talk about this one more time because 1964 bit gotten big enough from all the People Living elsewhere. Close miles from the stadium. In 1964 when the original great coach in history and one of the final titles, aliquippa played hopewell for the trophy and he was the quarterback and later went on to be for many in the major leagues and he was only known as hopewell beat them that night as a stunning upset and this is how he put it. Before all that they had one moment by which to measure one moment in his life. They thought we were tougher than that. Who didnt understand a greater upset in the following monday it had been 25 years since he had been so stunned by the loss. They sat silent waiting for the next miracle, the times went on and they wouldnt have changed if the earth openethe earth oped swallowed the stadium. It was a strange relationship. There have been many efforts in recent years or at least flags thrown up by the School District officially or unofficially to somehow get a merger because the population is getting smaller. So there is at least so far. So theres a lot of resentment even though its sort of their brother. But we just tell yo me just tele bit about tony. Eventually, hopewell became the power and they fell on terrible times. A lot of that was because the racial problems in the schools were devastating. What if they had played for aliquippa. Hope all folks dismissed the entertainment and its true that you never went. It would have been easy. They grew up in the 70s. He moved i moved into his path n the house over the line. He lasted just a few days until the neighbor told on them. In the 1960s mount vernon had been one of the first places as a way to ease desegregation. For the twomile walk they would look up to see t