If you're a person who is an immigrant or a second-generation immigrant and your house gets taken away to build a public housing project, that's one thing, and that's sad in many ways.

But if your house gets taken away to build a housing project and then it gets sold to a private businessman to build a baseball stadium. I mean, that's one of those epic kind of wrongs.

Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we're talking to the author of this amazing book called Stealing Home, Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between.

His name is Eric Nussbaum. I'm so excited to talk to him and talk about the founding of Dodger Stadium, Chavez Ravine,

and the price for one of the most famous pieces of architecture in all of sports.

Also, I've got some choice words about the NCAA and the idea of them coming back this fall, And I've got just stand up and just sit down

awards. But first, let's talk to Eric Nussbaum. So Eric, Eric, this is the big question I wanted

to ask you as I was reading the book.

A lot of people have been displaced for stadium land over the years.

Yet the Dodgers case has been a PBS special, a documentary, a Rai Cooter album.

And to me, most impressively, this book, why has this case so captured people's imagination over

the decades when so many other stadium land grab stories have sort of been lost to history?

I think the reason that this case is different is that it encompasses so much more than just the

Dodgers and some communities.

You know, it's really a story about public housing. It's a story about corruption and politics.

It's a story about kind of the development of a city at a time when it could have gone

differently. It could still go differently now than it does in places like Englewood.

But usually we kind of know the blueprint already.

We kind of have a sense of how these things are going to go

and what tactics everybody is going to use.

But the Dodger story really was sort of this sort of like epic opera of a of a tale it wasn't it wasn't just the team moves in

and bullies people you know the team really didn't come in until the last act of this it was really

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