Sublime

The sequestering of the big Butte market was duck soup for the aggressive Hill and allowed him to play the role that would make him a legend: forcing competitiveness on a rigged market.

The players made the kids the stars—part of the team. Coach Gillum has even heard kids bragging about which players they’d given autographs to. Not which autographs they’d received but which autographs they’d given.

But sabermetric orthodoxy, based on complex run-scoring simulations, says that the number-two batter—who makes almost as many plate appearances as the leadoff man, but bats with more runners on base—should be the club’s best hitter, instead of the high-contact, good-bat-control, move-the-runners-over type that teams have been sticking there since t

Andy Grove’s management classic, High Output Management,

to truly go Fans First, you must become a fanatic yourself.