Sublime

David Falkner is the author of several highly acclaimed books on sports including Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball, The Last Yankee, and Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham.

We weren’t just serving Cokes. According to Patrick, we were serving “the best Coke of your life.” The more we got into it, the more the fans got into it—and the more our service improved.

In Verna’s opinion, Douglas was a born student. He hadn’t finished college because of some highly exaggerated incident in the locker-room of the gym, but he had continued studying on his own and had already covered ceramics, modern poetry, the French impressionists, the growing of avocados, and the clarinet.

The organization of the St. Louis Bridge project offers a fine example of Carnegie’s methods. Railroad bridges were entrepreneurial ventures, usually financed by bond sales, which were repaid from railroad leases. The St. Louis Bridge Co.—primary owner Andrew Carnegie, silent partners Tom Scott and J. Edgar Thomson—clinched the St. Louis contract i