I am please today present tonight Leigh Montville. The team from barns noble have the books for sale. Please do consider purchasing the book and help us bring more great authors in st. Louis. So tonights presented by the author series, the program was started in 2004 and presents authors of politics, history and sports. You can visit the program for the list of businesses and organizations that sponsor the west fall series, our next west fall event will be next tuesday may 23rd, first fiction writer when jeff shara will be here. Hes a writer who writes sort of military history, history base but their novelizations. Its about the korean war. Onto tonights program, Leigh Montville former columnist, wrote New York Times biographies, babe ruth. Tonight he will share his new booflg of one of the most celebrated and and trough eial athletes, muhammad ali, appropriately titled sting like a bee. Subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. Its an inspiring account of