Illustrations

1. Barney Dreyfuss and Garry Herrmann

2. John McGraw

3. John McGraw and Christy Mathewson

4. Bill Veeck Sr. with Rogers Hornsby and William Wrigley

5. Jacob Ruppert and Miller Huggins

6. Ed Barrow and Joe McCarthy

7. Walter O’Malley, Bob Hunter, and Buzzie Bavasi

8. Al Campanis and Jim Wynn

9. Walter O’Malley, Buzzie Bavasi, and Fresco Thompson

10. Branch Rickey and Larry MacPhail

11. Larry MacPhail, Del Webb, and Dan Topping

12. August Busch Jr. with Warren Giles

13. Dan Devine

14. Jim Campbell

15. Harry Dalton

16. Dick O’Connell, Haywood Sullivan, and Dick Williams

17. Bob Howsam

18. Larry, Lee, and Bill MacPhail

19. Mike Burke

20. Cedric Tallis with Dick Sisler

21. Ewing Kauffman

22. Frank White and other Kansas City prospects

23. Ewing Kauffman and Syd Thrift

24. Charlie Metro, Lou Gorman, and Cedric Tallis

25. Cedric Tallis’s acquisitions

26. Gabe Paul

27. Peter Bavasi

28. Pat Gillick

29. Billy Beane

30. Bill Neukom, Larry Baer, and Brian Sabean

31. Ben Cherington and John Farrell