Eric Nusbaum is the author of the book Stealing Home and the co-creator of the Substack newsletter Sports Stories. We talk about the first pitch at Dodger Stadium in 1962 and the tangled story of how it all came to be. We also talk about baseball’s westward expansion, public housing, communism, the Red Scare, the communities that formerly sat in Chavez Ravine, the LA Times, ignoring history, Disneyland, Frank Wilkinson, gentrification, killer whales, power, To Kill a Mockingbird and the lasting impact of those communities and the families who lived there.

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Stealing Home: https://bookshop.org/books/stealing-home-los-angeles-the-dodgers-and-the-lives-caught-in-between-9781541742222/9781541742215

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