Contents
Chapter One THE CURSE OF TALENT
Chapter Two HOW TO FIND A BRLLPLAYER
Chapter Three THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter Four FIELD OF IGNORANCE
Chapter Five THE JEREMY BROWN BLUE PLATE SPECIAL
Chapter Six THE SCIENCE OF WINNING AN UNFAIR GAME
Chapter Eight SCOTT HATTEBERG, PICKIN' MACHINE
Chapter Ten ANATOMY OF AN UNDERVALUED PITCHER
Chapter Eleven THE HUMAN ELEMENT
Chapter Twelve THE SPEED OF THE IDEA
Afterword INSIDE BASEBALL'S RELIGIOUS WAR
Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking - had he the gold? or the gold him?
- John Ruskin, Unto This Last
