Sublime

While Jack Morgan was ensuring that he would have a direct bedroom-to-deck path on his new yacht, Ivar had tiptoed into the deal of the century.

When I sat down to write my account of the experience—Liar’s Poker, it was called—

rhapsodizing

So, in search of baseball simplicity, they turned their attention to what had started the season as a joke but had increasingly become a source of what MLB seemed to have lost the ability to produce. Fun. What was more fun than a basketball player—the basketball player—walking away from a $4 million NBA salary (which, at the time, was astronomical)