Sports writer and "Stealing Home" author Eric Nusbaum

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Baseball week at Bullseye continues with a conversation with sports writer and author Eric Nusbaum. His new book "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between," is all about the complicated history behind Dodger Stadium. When the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century, the construction of a new stadium displaced hundreds of Mexican American families. The lifelong Dodgers fan talks to us about reckoning with this reality, the history of the team and his love of the game.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.3	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.0	About two and a half miles from where I am sitting right now is Dodger Stadium.
0:27.0	In fact, if I go up to the upper floor of my house, I'm in the basement right now.
0:31.8	I can look out the window and see its light standards.
0:36.0	It's one of, and this pains me to say, as a native San Francisco and a San Francisco
0:41.2	Giants fan, it is one of the most iconic and beautiful baseball stadiums in the country,
0:46.8	a wonderful place to see the Giants meet the Dodgers.
0:50.6	Go there on a Friday night in May or June and you'll see what I mean.
0:54.4	It's surrounded by sprawling open chaparral.
0:57.6	You'll see the light from the setting sun hit the hills behind the outfield.
1:01.3	You'll feel a cool breeze coming in from the ocean.
1:04.9	The stadium opened in 1962.
1:07.4	It was the home for a team that had just a few years before moved to Los Angeles from
1:12.2	Brooklyn.
1:13.8	As beautiful as the stadium is though, the story of its construction is a painful one.
1:19.8	It's a story of injustice, racism, and hundreds of lost homes.
1:24.4	Eric Newsbaum is a sports writer who's written for Vice Sports Illustrated ESPN and Dead
1:29.8	Spin.
1:30.8	And he has a new book telling that history.
1:33.0	It's called Stealing Home, Los Angeles, The Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between.
1:38.5	It's a really great read.
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