Of alabama. Next on booktv, author and former Major League Pitcher larry colton recounts the teams exploits on and off the field amongst a backdrop of political and social change in birmingham, alabama. This is a little over one hour. Hi, everybody. Im really delighted with the opportunity to introduce larry this evening, but i know most of you know something about larry already. I become he is a kind of one man portland institution, the founder of the community of writers, founder of the work to stop workshop literary festival, just recently the Stewart Holbrooke libere legacy award, and so his devotion to writing and support the writing Community Important is really well known. Some organizing programs for Grammar School children getting their first taste of how to organize their thoughts about the world, to advice for aspiring writers, people like cant, recently honored at the oregon book award who turned to larry for advice when they were starting their own writing projects. But i