Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition): A Town, a Team, and a Dream

How does it all come to be, that’s what he wants to know, not just the how but the why of all this stuff. Only in America, apparently. Only America could take such a product-intensive sport and grow it into the civic necessity it is today.

Baseball people believed they knew the answers to those questions, and all the others. But those assumptions hadn’t been tested in decades, if ever, so it shouldn’t be surprising that many of them turned out to be wrong. From that gap between the assumed and the actual, Beane and his assistants were able to use their limited budget to construct div

At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically.

CHAPTER 3 HOW WE UNDERCUT WORKERS

It is quite another thing to challenge a system in which people are hungry, in which some can be so rich and many are poor.

Of the roughly 750,000 workers around the