Contents

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Gifted Lefty

Chapter 2: The Lawyer’s Son

Chapter 3: Cy Young. . . Cy Almost

Chapter 4: Crossroads

Chapter 5: Rich and Richer

Chapter 6: From Camden Yards to Yankee Stadium

Chapter 7: A Bitter Divorce

Chapter 8: One More Contract

Chapter 9: The Rites of Spring

Chapter 10: Starting Over

Chapter 11: Getting Serious

Chapter 12: Real Baseball

Chapter 13: A Cold Spring

Chapter 14: Spring in New York

Chapter 15: Back on Track

Chapter 16: Subway Series I

Chapter 17: Drought

Chapter 18: Bumps in the Road

Chapter 19: F—— the Process

Chapter 20: Road-Trip Blues

Chapter 21: Limping to the Break

Chapter 22: Good News, Bad News

Chapter 23: Hardball

Chapter 24: The Number Gets Named

Chapter 25: Autopilot

Chapter 26: Crash

Chapter 27: On a Roll

Chapter 28: We Suck

Chapter 29: The Final Days

Chapter 30: Götterdämmerung

Chapter 31: Into the Twilight

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Author Biography

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